In Time's eye (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Rudyard Kipling
Redaktion: Montefiore, Janet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging received opinion and breaking new ground in Kipling scholarship, these essays on Kipling's attitudes to the First World War, to the culture of Edwardian England, to homosexuality and to Jewishness, bring historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial writer.

The Introduction situates the book in the context of Kipling's changing reputation and of recent Kipling scholarship. After the perspectives of Chesterton (1905), Orwell (1942) and Jarrell (1960), newer contributions address Kipling's approach to the Boer war, his involvement with World War One, his Englishness and the politics of literary quotation. Different aspects of Kipling's relation to India are explored, including the 'Mutiny', Eastern religions, his Indian travel writings and his knowledge of 'the vernacular'.

This collection, whose contributors include Hugh Brogan, Dan Jacobson, Daniel Karlin and Bryan Cheyette, is essential reading for academics and students of Kipling, Victorian and Edwardian English literature and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111289
• Artikelnr.: 48795065

Autorenporträt

Jan Montefiore is Professor of Twentieth Century English Literature at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Jan Montefiore 2. Kipling
G K Chesterton 3. Rudyard Kipling
George Orwell 4. On preparing to read Kipling
Randall Jarrell 5. Kipling in South Africa
Dan Jacobson 6. The Great War and Rudyard Kipling
Hugh Brogan 7. A Kipling
conditioned world: Kipling among the War Poets
Harry Ricketts 8. Actions and reactions: Kipling's Indian Summer
Daniel Karlin 9. Rikki
Tikki
Tavi and Indian history
Lisa Lewis 10. The young Kipling's search for God
Charles Allen 11. Vagabondage in Rajasthan: Kipling's Indian travels in fact and fiction
Jan Montefiore 12. Kipling's vernacular: what he knew of it and what he made of it
Harish Trivedi 13. Quotations and boundaries: Stalky & co.
Kaori Nagai 14. Kipling, beastliness and soldatenliebe
Howard Booth 15. A race to leave alone: Kipling and the Jews
Bryan Cheyette Select bibliography Index