The aim of this chapter is to highlight the ambivalence of the monkey portrayed by Kipling in The Mark of the Beast . The monkey is on one side the mysterious deity, object of worship by the Hindu natives, on the other side it recalls a fundamental step of Darwinian evolutionary theories of Kipling’s contemporary Victorian society. In both cases it is terrifying and haunts the Victorian mind.
Titolo: | Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast and the Elusive Monkey |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 |
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Abstract: | The aim of this chapter is to highlight the ambivalence of the monkey portrayed by Kipling in The Mark of the Beast . The monkey is on one side the mysterious deity, object of worship by the Hindu natives, on the other side it recalls a fundamental step of Darwinian evolutionary theories of Kipling’s contemporary Victorian society. In both cases it is terrifying and haunts the Victorian mind. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11564/725326 |
ISBN: | 9781785273278 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |
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