Rudyard Kipling: Activist and Artist (A Chicago Classic)

By V.A. Shahane and Professor Vasant A. Shahane

In this unique Indian response to Kipling's writings and view of the Anglo-Indian world, a distinguished Indian scholar points up the influences that colored Kip­ling's imagination and pervaded his ma­ture writings. In addition, he gives a particularly full examination of the in­tellectual atmosphere of the late-Victorian age and its writers who helped shape Kipling's mode of expression.

Of particular value to English-speaking readers is Professor Shahane's discussion of Kipling's idiolect, which is marked by preponderant use of Hindustani words and a peculiar mixture of Hindu syntax and English grammatical structure.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809306220
• ISBN13: 9780809306220
• Release Date: October 1973
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 4.9"