Rudyard Kipling's Fiction : : Mapping Psychic Spaces / / Lizzy Welby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Welby, Lizzy,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Reads Kipling's fiction through the lens of French feminism to reinstate the abjected maternal feminine in his artGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748698554','ISBN:9780748698561']);This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. In doing so, it peels back the layers of masculine bravado that continues to characterize Kipling's fiction to reveal a valorized 'feminine' space. From readings of the 1888 story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep' through The Jungle Book and Stalky & Co., Kim, The Day's Work, Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies, Lizzy Welby demonstrates that Kipling created ways of rediscovering a symbolised feminine landscape as a restorative space, which was part of his 'psychic mapping'.Key Features:Demonstrates a steady development through Kipling's long and extensive writing careerProvides insights into the man and his art as well as providing a new way of reading KiplingReferences a considerable range of scholarly and biographical work on Kipling, historical and cultural studies of nineteenth century India Offers close reading of passages from Kipling's fiction, showing how a feminised landscape is violated by (masculine) technological developments"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on the text -- Introduction: Two Separate Sides to His Head - Kipling's Ambivalent India -- 1. Paradise Lost: Kipling's Southsea Years -- 2. Mastering the Law-of-the-Father in The Jungle Book and Stalky & Co. -- 3. Empire of Contradictions: Desire for the Impossible Mother India in Kim -- 4. The 'Sorrowful State of Manhood': Kipling's Adults in India -- 5. The Ascent from the Abyss: Dedication to Duty in The Day's Work -- Conclusion: This Other Eden - Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies -- Bibliography -- Index