Masculinity, Madness and Empire in Kipling’s ‘Thrown Away’ and ‘The Madness of Private Ortheris’
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Abstract Institutional records suggest that the grounds for anxiety about insanity in late-nineteenth-century India were many and varied. Amongst other causes, one might have been rendered insane by sunstroke, fever, head injury, strong drink, inherited tendency, loss of money, grief, jealousy, anger, sexual excess, excessive joy, or (perhaps disturbingly) study.1 With such a panoply anxieties to explore, it is scarcely surprising Rudyard Kipling’s Indian fiction abounds with characters who experience madness various kinds degrees. This paper focuses on two short stories collected 1888 volume Plain Tales from Hills: ‘Thrown Away’ ‘The Madness Private Ortheris’. These offer particular insight into madness, its relationship masculinity, consequences social order British India. As Jonathan Saha has pointed out, colonial context was doubly significant. Since ‘could strike anyone, rulers ruled, men women . threatened undermine racial boundary disrupt established norms masculinity femininity’.2 Both Ortheris’ explore expose psychological crisis takes form deviation gender resolved an enforced return those norms. Reading alongside asylum records, this contextualizes their representation argues offers glimpse what fill important gaps archival record.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Victorian Culture
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1355-5502', '1750-0133']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcab038