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Title
Conservative belief and the imagination in Kipling's fiction / Mark Paffard.
ISBN
9783031402203 (electronic bk.)
3031402200 (electronic bk.)
9783031402197
3031402197
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 221 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-40220-3 doi
Call Number
PR4857 .P34 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.809
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 20, 2023).
Chapter 1. Introduction. The purpose and scope of this book (The Anxious Conservative)
Chapter 2. Early Indian Fiction (1888-1893) : Context and Background
Chapter 3. Imperial Servants and Adventurers
Chapter 4. Soldiers in India
Chapter 5. A Writer for Children:1894-1899
Chapter 6. Kim
Chapter 7. Kipling in pre-war England: new technologies and new anxieties
Chapter 8. The charmed life of the English : Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910)
Chapter 9. Culture and Conservatism
Chapter 10. Social Misfits
Chapter 11. The Great War
Chapter 12. 'The Wish-House' and the working-class
Chapter 13. Late Experiments.
