'McAndrew, come awa'!': Scots and Imperial Gothic in Rudyard Kipling's 'McAndrew's Hymn'.
Although Rudyard Kipling deployed a wide range of language varieties throughout his prolific literary career, only some of them have received sustained attention. This article focuses on Scots, which, despite being used in several of his literary works, has been comparatively more neglected than oth...
| Publicado en: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 37; pp. 1 - 21 |
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