A selective list of articles for the British poet, novelist, and story writer Rudyard Kipling, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Baneth, Emilienne. Baneth explores the impact of Kipling's youthful "exile" from India to England for his early education. "'Ship Me Somewhere East of Suez': Rudyard Kipling's strange exile from himself." Jouvert, Vol. 6, No. 1-2 (Fall, 2001)
Battles, Paul. "'The Mark of the Beast': Rudyard Kipling's apocalyptic vision of empire." in Short Fiction, Summer, 1996
Bauer, Helen Pike. A review of Rudyard Kipling: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction,1994) Reviewed by Minnie Singh in Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1996
Dillingham, William B. "Sorrow and the redemptive role of fate: Kipling's 'On Greenhow Hill.'" Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2003
Kerr, Douglas. An introduction to Rudyard Kipling from the Literary Encyclopedia, 30 May 2002. On Plain Tales from the Hills (1888); Life's Handicap (1891); Kim (1901)
Liu, Yin. "Text as Image in Kipling's Just So Stories." Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2008
Richards, David Alan. "Collecting Kipling" [Book collecting and bibliography]. From a talk at the Kipling Society, 5/5/99
Scannell, James. "The method is unsound: the aesthetic dissonance of colonial justification in Kipling, Conrad, and Greene" [Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene] Style, Fall, 1996
Trout, Steven. "Christ in Flanders?: another look at Rudyard Kipling's 'The Gardener.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 1998
The Kipling Society, publisher of the Kipling Journal, provides much information at their web site, including a biography of Rudyard Kipling, an ingenious way to hunt for themes in Kipling, and collections of notes on various Kipling works. The Society plans to publish up to 50 general articles on its web site eventually. Currently available are "Kipling as a Science Fiction Writer" ; "Kipling and the Royal Navy" ; "Kipling's Biographers" ; "Kipling and Music" ; "Kipling's Sussex" ; "Kipling and Medicine"
The Victorian Web has essays on Kipling's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background
"Colonialism and Morality in The Moonstone and The Man Who Would Be King," by Graham Peters. Part of The Imperial Archive Project, a web site from Queens Univ. Belfast devoted to the study of literature, imperialism, and postcolonialism. Other articles at the site on Kipling (all authored by graduate students): "Kipling, Kim, and Anthropology," by Tricia Doyle; "Kipling’s Notions of Race in Plain Tales from the Hills," by Jon Buchan
Nobel Prize page for Rudyard Kipling, who won the Nobel Prize in 1907
Readers responded to Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden." More than 50 turn-of-the-century newspaper articles responding to the poem (removed from http://www.boondocksnet.com/kipling/)
"Who Was Kipling?" A summary collection of past articles from The Atlantic Monthly on the many contradictions of Rudyard Kipling, with links to the original articles. May 24, 2002 (removed)
"A Man of Permanent Contradictions," a substantial review of The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, by David Gilmour. Reviewed by Christopher Hitchens, who contends that "the paradox underlying all of Kipling's work is a horror of democracy combined with an exaltation of the common man." The Atlantic Monthly Online, June 2002 (removed)
Description of the Rudyard Kipling papers in the collection of the University of Sussex library.
"Character Fit for Empire: Honour, Athleticism, and Manliness in European Culture Before WW1." Syllabus for a course at the University of Adelaide, features Kipling
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