In Time's Eye: Essays on Rudyard Kipling - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719095751 ISBN 13: 9780719095757

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Challenging received opinion and breaking new ground in Kipling scholarship, these essays on Kipling's attitudes to the First World War, to the culture of Edwardian England, to homosexuality and to Jewishness, bring historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial writer.

The Introduction situates the book in the context of Kipling's changing reputation and of recent Kipling scholarship. After the perspectives of Chesterton (1905), Orwell (1942) and Jarrell (1960), newer contributions address Kipling's approach to the Boer war, his involvement with World War One, his Englishness and the politics of literary quotation. Different aspects of Kipling's relation to India are explored, including the 'Mutiny', Eastern religions, his Indian travel writings and his knowledge of 'the vernacular'.

This collection, whose contributors include Hugh Brogan, Dan Jacobson, Daniel Karlin and Bryan Cheyette, is essential reading for academics and students of Kipling, Victorian and Edwardian English literature and cultural history.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Montefiore is Professor of Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Kent, UK.

Review:

"Jan Montefiore's handsomely produced collection of essays tackles the subject [Kipling's views] straight on." -Adam Roberts, TLS, In Brief, 24 January 2014

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0719095751
• ISBN 13: 9780719095757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Montefiore Janet