The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard KiplingHoward J. Booth 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
1 Kipling and the findesiècle | 7 |
2 India and empire | 23 |
3 Kiplings very special relationship Kipling in America America in Kipling | 37 |
4 Science and technology present past and future | 52 |
5 Kipling and gender | 66 |
6 Kipling and war | 80 |
7 Kipling as a childrens writer and the Jungle Books | 95 |
8 Nine and sixty ways Kipling ventriloquist poet | 111 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adult adventure American amit Chaudhuri andrew anglo-Indian angus Wilson animals Bagheera Barrack-Room Ballads Britain British empire Buldeo Captains Courageous chapter Chaudhuri child Children’s Literature colonial critics culture Day’s Debits and Credits Dick Dick’s Diversity of Creatures edited eliot england English example father female film Gandhi Gunga Gunga Din human Ibid illustrations imperial India irish Jan Montefiore John Lockwood Kipling Jungle Books Kafiristan Kim’s Kipling’s Kipling’s stories lama later Letters ofRudyard Kipling Light That Failed literary Macmillan maisie male Mary military modern mother Mowgli narrative narrator Naulakha never notes novel ofthe Penguin poem poetry political postcolonial protagonist Puck readers relationship roger Lancelyn Green role Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling London Rudyard Kipling’s Verse rushdie Sahib Salman rushdie Shere Khan short story soldiers Stalky suggests thomas Pinney tion Volume White Man’s Burden woman women