Synopses & Reviews
Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers.
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of Empire, and the deaths of two of his children--and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him, but could never ignore him.
Synopsis
This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him.
About the Author
Phillip Mallett Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.
Table of Contents
Preface * Childhood and Youth * Seven Years' Hard: Kipling in India * The Conquest of London * Citizens of America * The Song of the English *
Kim * In a Hidden Kingdom * Towards Armageddon * The Great War and After * The Last Decade * Bibliography * Index