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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi ’ – KIPLING S ART OF FICTION, 1884 1901 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi ’ Kipling s Art of Fiction, – 1884 1901 DAVID SERGEANT 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #DavidSergeant2013 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2013 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN 978–0–19–968458–8 Asprintedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi Acknowledgements This book has its distant origins in a doctoral thesis supervised by John Sloan and examined by Elleke Boehmer and Robert Hampson. An early draft of the thesis was read by David Page, while draft sections of the book were read by Peter Havholm. My thanks to all of them for their comments,andtotheorganizersandattendeesoftheKiplingconferences of 2007 and 2011 for their stimulating discussions. I owe a debt of gratitude to the many colleagues in Oxford who have helped my work, in particular Fiona Stafford, whose sage example and advice have proved invaluable. IwouldliketothanktheAHRCforfundingmyDoctoralandMasters studies, and the AHRC and the John F. Kluge Center for a scholarship thatallowedmetoundertakeresearchattheLibraryofCongressforfour months. I would also like to thank Somerville College, Oxford, for the postdoctoral fellowship that allowed me to rethink my original thesis materialintowhatfollows. Parts of this book draw on material that originally appeared in the essays ‘Kipling’s Descriptions’ (Essays in Criticism, 59, 4 October 2009, 324–47),‘ChangesinRudyardKipling’sFictiononhisReturntoBritain’ (English Literature in Transition, 52/2 (2009), 144–59) and ‘Whispering to the Converted: Narrative Communication in Kipling’s Letters of Marque and Indian Fiction’ (Modern Language Review, 104, 1 January 2009, 26–40). I am grateful for permission to republish or rework that materialhere. IhavebeenhelpedinmyresearchbylibrariansattheBodleianLibrary, University of Oxford; in the Archive and Special Collections section of Durham University Library; in the Manuscript Collections Room at the British Library; in Room 320 at the New York Public Library; in the Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; in the Special Collections Department at the University of Sussex; and in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, and the John F. Kluge Center, at the Library of Congress, Washington DC. My debt to the outstanding scholarship of Thomas Pinney,editorofKipling’sletters,iseverywhereapparentinthisbook. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi Contents DatesandAbbreviations viii 1. Introduction 1 2. FictioninIndia,1884–1889 12 3. ReturntoBritain,1889–1890 59 4. MovetoFable,1891–1900 98 5. Kim,1901 152 6. Postscript:AfterKim 206 Bibliography 209 Index 227 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi Dates and Abbreviations DATES Frequentlytwodateswillbegivenforindividualworks,asthisgivesaclearersense oftheirrelationshipwithKipling’scircumstancesandtherestofhisœuvre.First date given is that of first magazine publication, Indian, British, or American; seconddategivenisthatofthecollectionwithwhichtheworkisnowassociated. Forinstance,‘WithoutBenefitofClergy’waspublishedinMacmillan’sMagazine inJune1890,beforebeingcollectedinTheCourtingofDinahShaddandOther Storiesin1890andLife’sHandicapin1891.Igiveitsdateas1890/1ratherthan simply1890,becauseTheCourtingofDinahShaddandOtherStorieswasashort- lived volume, and the story is now commonly associated with Life’s Handicap. Whenonlyonedateappears,eithermagazineandvolumedatearethesame,or theworkwasneverpublishedinamagazine.Moredetailedannotationwouldbe cumbersome;forexactdetailsonthepublicationhistoryofallKipling’swork,see theexcellentwebsitemaintainedbytheKiplingSociety(www.kipling.org.uk). ABBREVIATIONS Except when indicated in the text, all references to Kipling’s works are to The Sussex Edition (35 vols, 1937–9), which are abbreviated as below; and to the Penguin Classics edition of Something of Myself edited by Robert Hampson (Harmondsworth:Penguin,1987),abbreviatedasSM. AR ActionsandReactions,vol.viii BW ABookofWords,vol.xxv CC Captain’sCourageous,vol.xx DAC DebitsandCredits,vol.x DC ADiversityofCreatures,vol.ix DW TheDay’sWork,vol.vi FB AFleetinBeing,TheWar,vol.xxvi IGi TheIrishGuardsintheGreatWar,vol.xxvii IGii TheIrishGuardsintheGreatWar,vol.xxviii JB TheJungleBooks,vol.xii JS TheJustSoStories,vol.xiii K. Kim,vol.xxi LH Life’sHandicap,vol.iv LR LimitsandRenewals,vol.xi LST LandandSeaTales;ThyServantaDog,vol.xvi LT LettersofTravel,vol.xxiv LTF TheLightthatFailed,vol.xviii OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/10/2013,SPi DatesandAbbreviations ix MI ManyInventions,vol.v N. TheNaulakha,vol.xix PP PuckofPook’sHill,vol.xiv PT PlainTalesfromtheHills,vol.i RF RewardsandFairies,vol.xv SC StalkyandCo.,vol.xvii SSi FromSeatoSea,vol.xxii SSii FromSeatoSea,vol.xxiii ST SoldiersThree,vol.ii TD TrafficsandDiscoveries,vol.vii UPi UncollectedProse,vol.xxix UPi UncollectedProse,vol.xxx WWW WeeWillieWinkie,vol.iii ReferencestoKipling’sLettersaretoTheLettersofRudyardKipling,ed.Thomas Pinney(6vols;Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan,1994–2004),andareabbrevi- atedasfollows: LI Letters,vol.I LII Letters,vol.II LIII Letters,vol.III LIV Letters,vol.IV LV Letters,vol.V LVI Letters,vol.VI
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