TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kipling, Rudyard
AU  - Kemp, Sandra (Editor) 
AU  - Lewis,  Lisa (Editor)
TI  - Writings on writing
SN  - 9780521445276
U1  - 828.802 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : 
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Kipling, Rudyard, -- 1865-1936
KW  - Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
KW  - Literature -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
KW  - Criticism -- Quotations, maxims, etc
KW  - Romans
N1  - Including Index; 1. Portrait of the artist as a young man.--
2. Aesthetics.--
3. How to write: Ingredients and Methods.--
4. History and Contemporary Culture.--
5. The Commerce of Literature.--
6. The Writer and His Critics.--
7. Afterwords
N2  - "Unlike his contemporaries Virginia Woolf and Henry James, Kipling always denied he was a critic. But his letters, speeches and stories are full of comments on writing and writers. This collection, including many previously unpublished private letters and papers, details Kipling's response to the commercialisation of literature and the emerging role of the writer as celebrity in the turbulent literary world of the 1890s and beyond. They reveal a mind intensely concerned with questions of literary value, with language and imagination, with truth, realism and romanticism. Kipling's fame made him a significant spokesperson for important segments of the reading public - the soldiers, engineers and functionaries central to Britain's imperial expansion. He profoundly influenced English literary language and our perception of English national character. This book offers new access to the private and public history of a writer whose continuing influence is still a matter of fierce controversy."--Jacket.

Though Kipling always denied any critical intent, his letters, speeches and stories are full of comments on writing and writers. This collection, including many previously unpublished private letters and papers, reveal a mind intensely concerned with questions of literary value. Kipling became an important spokesperson for segments of the reading public central to Britain's imperial expansion. He profoundly influenced English literary language and our perception of English national character. This book offers new access to and understanding of the private and public history of a still fiercely controversial writer
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