The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521136636 ISBN 13: 9780521136631

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. His books have sold in great numbers, and he remains the youngest writer to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many associate Kipling with poems such as 'If-', his novel Kim, his pioneering use of the short story form and such works for children as the Just So Stories. For others, though, Kipling is the very symbol of the British Empire and a belligerent approach to other peoples and races. This Companion explores Kipling's main themes and texts, the different genres in which he worked and the various phases of his career. It also examines the 'afterlives' of his texts in postcolonial writing and through adaptations of his work. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book serves as a useful introduction for students of literature and of Empire and its after effects.

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About the Author

Howard Booth is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521136636
• ISBN 13: 9780521136631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Booth Howard J.