@article{1482510,
      recid = {1482510},
      author = {Paffard, Mark,},
      title = {Conservative belief and the imagination in Kipling's  fiction /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 221 pages)},
      abstract = {This book explores the tension between the conservatism  and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard  Kipling's fiction. It shows how Kipling the conservative  thinker explores problematic aspects of Empire and the  English class-system, both because it is unavoidable and  because his art requires it. This tension is evident in the  Indian and 'Imperial' Kipling and in his later 'English'  stories. Situating Kipling's fiction within changing social  and political contexts, Mark Paffard shows the anxieties  Kipling as a conservative responds to in the early Indian  stories to be very different from those caused by the  economic and technological upheaval of the 'Belle Epoque',  and those arising from the First World War. Paffard reveals  how Kipling's development as a writer is shaped by his need  to respond differently to a changing world: imperialist  ideology and conservatism dictate the stories that he sets  out to write, and his imagination and sympathy shape the  stories that are finally written. Mark Paffard is an  independent scholar. He is the author of Kipling's Indian  Fiction (1989) and several articles in The Kipling  Journal.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482510},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40220-3},
}