Writing, Men, Empire: Kipling's Medievalist Imagination.

Author / Editor
Utz, Richard.

Title
Writing, Men, Empire: Kipling's Medievalist Imagination.

Published
Studies in Medievalism 31 (2022): 159-75.

Description
Considers how Rudyard Kipling incorporates a Chaucer-centered medievalism in his writings, emphasizing the conservative, imperialist bent of this reception. As a point of departure, draws attention to Kipling's late short story "Dayspring Mishandled," which weaves a tale of manuscript forgery around allusion to rivalry for a woman, recalling KnT.

Alternative Title
Studies in Medievalism 31 (2022)

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale