Conservative Belief and the Imagination in Kipling’s Fiction
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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