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Politics of Kipling examined by Wooster professor

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From: Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
Date: 20080629
Author:Lydia Gehring

WOOSTER -- English author Rudyard Kipling, best known for such children's classics as "The Jungle Book" and "The Just-So Stories" is the subject of a critically acclaimed new book by Peter Havholm, professor of English at The College of Wooster.

Havholm examines the influence of the principles and politics of the internationally popular, Nobel Prize-winning writer in "Politics and Awe in Rudyard Kipling's Fiction," published this year by Ashgate Publishing Ltd. His book traces the sources of Kipling's imperialist ideology, and according to James Phelan, humanities distinguished professor at ...

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