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If
The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
Taschenbuch von Christopher Benfey
Sprache: Englisch

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2019

A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature

At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures-including Freud and William James-was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling's reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem "If-" is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States-a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy.

Benfey traces the writer's deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. "There are only two places in the world where I want to live," he lamented, "Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can't live in either."

In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative "what if" over Kipling's American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling's work.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2019

A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature

At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures-including Freud and William James-was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling's reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem "If-" is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States-a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy.

Benfey traces the writer's deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. "There are only two places in the world where I want to live," he lamented, "Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can't live in either."

In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative "what if" over Kipling's American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling's work.
Über den Autor
Christopher Benfey
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780735221451
ISBN-10: 0735221456
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Benfey, Christopher
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 214 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Benfey
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
Artikel-ID: 129304117
Über den Autor
Christopher Benfey
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780735221451
ISBN-10: 0735221456
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Benfey, Christopher
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 214 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Benfey
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
Artikel-ID: 129304117
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