Alexander Bubb

Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siaecle

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Produktbeschreibung

Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of their careers, identifying mutual echoes in their poetry and political rhetoric and charting them against key intersections in the two men's lives.

Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198753872
• ISBN-10: 019875387X
• Artikelnr.: 47869245

Autorenporträt

Alex Bubb is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London. His principal interests are in Victorian literature and art, but informed by the European encounter with India. He has published articles on the diaries of Irish soldiers in the colonial armies, and on migrant Indian intellectuals in fin de siecle London. After finishing his doctorate at Oxford, he spent a year working on the archive of a Indian colonial railway contractor held at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is currently studying the popularization of Middle Eastern and South Asian classics by the mid-Victorian publishing world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: 'We Shall Go Back' Childhoods Lived and Relived
2: Returns, 1881-1886
3: Threshold Figures, 1887-1890
4: Arrival: Negotiating the Literary World of Fin de Siècle London
5: Plotting and Scheming: Experiments Toward a Modern Mythology
6: Authority, 1896-1906
Coda
Appendix: Parallel Chronology
Bibliography