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Culture and Conservatism,show themselves in narrative twists, facets of character, oddness of scenario, even choice of literary influence. But things are rarely quite that simple, and I will now look briefly at three stories from the early ‘English’ period where I think Kipling conveys his political views wholly successfull

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Social Misfits,rst two of these use ghostly influences in a distinctly ‘modern’ way to point to a sense of general unfairness experienced by the characters, though this is balanced by narratives which allow for healing. ‘Mary Postgate’ is a war story and one of Kipling’s greatest, but shares with the other two the

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The Great War,ors of the Western Front in ‘The Janeites’ and ‘A Madonna of the Trenches’, with other stories that examine the mental scars of ex-servicemen, and even with humour in ‘On the Gate’, and his focus is very much on the effects the war has had. In stories set among freemasons and Jane Austen devotees Ki

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Late Experiments, Gardener’, but branch off into new types of experiment with plot and genre, as well as returning to stories with historical settings. My own feeling is that even the most complex exploration of personalities, in ‘Dayspring Mishandled’, does not have quite the emotional power that stems from Kipling

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8er they are important for understanding the origins of Kipling’s conservatism, and as a background to the early examples of such a tension which I explore in the next two chapters. A large number of these stories are briefly discussed in the contexts of British and Anglo-Indian (the British living i

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