Kiplingesque

In these stories London asserts the Kiplingesque myth of the superior White Race, but he also adapts it to a naturalistic framework.

“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction

Needless to say, Brooke finds Nell cute when she's angry, and he becomes jealous of the attentions she's paid by a fine working-class lad named, with Kiplingesque inevitability, Tommy.

Jill Dawson's novel about Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover"

London revives a favored theme: the Kiplingesque conflict ...

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”

In "Where the Trail Forks" (Outing, December, 1900), London revives a favored theme: the Kiplingesque conflict between between Anglo-Saxon mores and Indian religions and folkways.

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”

To call them Kiplingesque would be to cheapen them; they were practically out of the Iliad.

Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas

To call them Kiplingesque would be to cheapen them; they were practically out of the Iliad.

Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas

In our Kiplingesque way, we are left behind to mutter: "This isn't fair dealing".

Today's the day ...

In our Kiplingesque way, we are left behind to mutter: "This isn't fair dealing".

Archive 2007-12-01

It also provides a convenient outlet for bigoted animus – where once denigrating Muslims or advocating invading “pagan” countries at will smacked uncomfortably of racism, religious bigotry, and a Kiplingesque lack of modernity, today you can be out and proud in your hatred of brown-skinned non-Christians as a political stance favoring tolerance, freedom, and progressive values of the kind harbored by David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and the Young America Foundation.

Pants-Wetting Bigotry Week « Lean Left

In London in 1998, at the decennial meeting of Anglican primates, the mostly liberal American bishops arrived in a Kiplingesque mood, eager to tutor the "lesser breeds without the law" in advanced thinking about sexuality.

The Limits Of Inclusiveness