The Day's Work : Kipling and the Idea of Sacrifice

This study explores ways in which Kipling addressed a personal and historical crisis and offers a reading of the diverse strategies he used to sustain a threatened ideology and an embattled elite.

It concentrates especially on Kipling's moving and subtle treatments of concepts of duty and sacrifice.

The book is a critical study that pursues the growing contemporary interest in the shaping of texts by politics and ideology.