Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life

by P. Mallett

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333557211
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/24/2003
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

PHILLIP MALLETT is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. His work on Kipling includes an edition of Limits and Renewals, as well as an edited collection of essays, Kipling Considered. He has also edited three collections of essays on Hardy, including Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts, in 2002.

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

Editorial Reviews

'...with the accent on the writing and publishing history of Kipling's works, Mallett reveals new facets of his life and times... [Mallett's] enthusiasm for Kipling's work shines through the book, making it a thoroughly enjoyable read.' - The Kipling Journal

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