Fomina O. The Idea of Empire and intellectual elite of Great Britain: Rudyard Kipling, 1865?1936.

The thesis is devoted to the complex research of the imperial idea in the creative works of Rudyard Kipling. History of the Anglo-Indian relations is being examined. Author’s attention is concentrated on the work of R. J. Kipling, where this has to do with the output and sentiment of British Empire. The result is a reciprocal illumination of the imperial idea’s moral significance and author’s creative vision. In the course of the study, for example, it becomes clear that Kipling is not writing primarily about the glories of the British Raj, but about the problems of integrity and self-consciousness. One might add that as the imperial fervour diminished in the aftermath of the Boer War relationship between the imperial idea and the imaginative writer took on new and very different form. For Kipling the crisis of empire had also been his own personal crisis: alienation, the violation of integrity and the loss of self-consciousness. It is, therefore, not surprising that the tensions of this writer’s moralawareness are found to be in remarkable sympathy with the tensions of the imperial idea. However thanks to spreading the imperial idea of R. Kipling existence of British Empire hasn’t been stopped after leaving independence of colonies.