The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling

Edited by Howard J. Booth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 31 August 2011

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ISBN: 0521136636 ISBN 13: 9780521136631

The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling

An overview of Kipling's work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism. Top page

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. His books have sold in great numbers, and he remains the youngest writer to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many associate Kipling with poems such as 'If-', his novel Kim, his pioneering use of the short story form and such works for children as the Just So Stories. For others, though, Kipling is the very symbol of the British Empire and a belligerent approach to other peoples and races. This Companion explores Kipling's main themes and texts, the different genres in which he worked and the various phases of his career. It also examines the 'afterlives' of his texts in postcolonial writing and through adaptations of his work. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book serves as a useful introduction for students of literature and of Empire and its after effects. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Cambridge University Press

City: Cambridge

Pages: 228

More info: height 228 mm width 152 mm weight 370 gr thickness 11 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 823.809 Library of Congress Subject: Kipling, Rudyard - Criticism and interpretation

Record updated at: 15 May, 2013 time: 13:52

Summary The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling Chronology; Introduction Howard J. Booth; 1. Kipling and the fin-de-siecle Robert Hampson; 2. India and empire John McBratney; 3. Kipling's very special relationship: Kipling in America, America in Kipling Judith Plotz; 4. Science and technology: present, past and future Laurence Davies; 5. Kipling and gender Kaori Nagai; 6. Kipling and war David Bradshaw; 7. Kipling as a children's writer and the Jungle books Jan Montefiore; 8. 'Nine and sixty ways': Kipling, ventriloquist poet Harry Ricketts; 9. Kim Patrick Brantlinger; 10. The later short fiction Howard J. Booth; 11. Kipling and postcolonial literature Bart Moore-Gilbert; 12. Kipling and the visual: illustrations and adaptations Monica Turci; 13. Reading Kipling in India Harish Trivedi; Further reading; Index. Top page

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