Publication Date:
2020
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.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
Imperialism; Orientalism; Hindu Gods; Darwinian Evolution Theories
List of contributors:
Sette, Miriam
Book title:
Late Victorian Orientalism: Representations of the East in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Art and Culture from the Pre-Raphaelites to John La Farge
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