Beyond the pale: women, cultural contagion, and narrative hysteria in Kipling, Orwell, and Forster.
| Publisher | University of Calgary, Department of English |
| Publication | ARIEL |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0004-1327 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Published | 2005-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Alan Blackstock |
| Person | Works | E.M. Forster |
| Person | Works | Rudyard Kipling |
| Person | Works | George Orwell |
Many critics have examined how, in the words of David B. Espey, "British Empire in India as represented in fiction from Kipling to Orwell is a male domain gradually eroded by British women.... The nature of imperial society ... give[s] women a subtle and often sinister power over men" (185). Pat Barr has blamed Kipling for the "stereotyped and superficial vision of the nineteeth-century Anglo-Indian woman that has remained current ever since as being truly representative of the whole species" (159). But of course Kipling, as a journalist, was to some extent merely reporting the...
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