{"658395":{"#nid":"658395","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Utz Publishes Essay on Kipling\u2019s Medievalist Imagination","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERichard Utz, professor of medievalism studies in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and associate dean for faculty development in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts,\u0026nbsp;recently published an essay in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/9781843846253\/studies-in-medievalism-xxxi\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStudies in Medievalism\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the essay, titled \u0026quot;Writing, Men, Empire: Kipling\u0026rsquo;s Medievalist Imagination,\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;Utz analyzes examples from Rudyard Kipling\u0026#39;s (1865\u0026mdash;1936) poetry and prose. Through this examination, Utz argues that Kipling invented a masculinist medieval past to sway his largely young adult readership in defense of England\u0026rsquo;s imperialist agenda.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Numerous authors, artists, and politicians adhering to and reaffirming continuist British medievalism were attracted to the medieval past because it offered a safe alternative to the revolutionary political and cultural change in other countries\u0026rsquo; paths to modernity,\u0026rdquo; Utz writes. \u0026ldquo;The omnipresent recourse to premodern ideals, models, and themes in Rudyard Kipling\u0026rsquo;s oeuvre reveals how he applied his own writerly craft in the service of maintaining a conservative ideal of Britain, one that would resist change to traditional gender roles, governance, and imperialist supremacy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The essay appeared in \u0027Studies in Medievalism.\u0027"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-05-20 16:34:52","changed_gmt":"2022-05-20 16:36:58","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648862":{"id":"648862","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz, Ivan Allen College ","body":null,"created":"1626699060","gmt_created":"2021-07-19 12:51:00","changed":"1626699060","gmt_changed":"2021-07-19 12:51:00","alt":"Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"246315","name":"Richard Utz.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Richard%20Utz.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Richard%20Utz.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19579,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Richard%20Utz.jpeg?itok=kVkgh0dd"}}},"media_ids":["648862"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"33431","name":"Richard Utz"},{"id":"69611","name":"medievalism"},{"id":"190175","name":"Rudyard Kipling"},{"id":"190652","name":"Studies in Medievalism"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cwhittle9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}