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Book SynopsisThese essays bring together historical, literary critical and postcolonial approaches to this perennially controversial writer. -- .
Trade ReviewJan Montefiore's handsomely produced collection of essays tackles the subject [Kipling's views] straight on.
Adam Roberts, TLS, January 2014
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Table of Contents1. Introduction – Jan Montefiore
2. Kipling – G K Chesterton
3. Rudyard Kipling– George Orwell
4. On preparing to read Kipling – Randall Jarrell
5. Kipling in South Africa – Dan Jacobson
6. The Great War and Rudyard Kipling – Hugh Brogan
7. A Kipling-conditioned world: Kipling among the War Poets – Harry Ricketts
8. Actions and Reactions: Kipling's Indian Summer – Daniel Karlin
9. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Indian history – Lisa Lewis
10. The young Kipling’s search for God – Charles Allen
11. Vagabondage in Rajasthan: Kipling’s Indian travels in fact and fiction – Jan Montefiore
12. Kipling's vernacular: what he knew of it and what he made of it – Harish Trivedi
13. Quotations and boundaries: Stalky & co. – Kaori Nagai
14. Kipling, beastliness and soldatenliebe – Howard Booth
15. A race to leave alone: Kipling and the Jews – Bryan Cheyette
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