Identity and Difference in the Works of Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling
In their works, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling explored identity dissolution and self-stability exploration simultaneously with narrative themes about adolescent development. Both authors use diverse elements of difference, from child-adult distinctions to human-animal contrasts, class systems, gender and cultural differences, religious differences, and geographical distinctions, to study the complexities of self-identification in human experience. This...