The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 9/1/2011
EAN 9780521136631, ISBN10: 0521136636

Paperback, 228 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Language: English

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.

Chronology
Introduction Howard J. Booth
1. Kipling and the fin-de-siècle 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.