Download or read book The Man who Would be Kipling written by Andrew Hagiioannu and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining careful textual analysis with lively historical coverage, The Man who would be Kipling suggests that the author's political ideas and narrative modes are more subtly connected with lived experience and issues of cultural environment than has been formerly recognised. Kipling emerges as a writer informed by such global developments as the expansion in technologies of mass production and communications, the consolidation of US imperial power (with its attendant domestic economic and social upheavals), and the dawning realities of postcolonial Britain."--Jacket.