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Philip Mallett. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave, 2003. x + 221 pp. $49.95
MALLETT EDITED a valuable collection of essays on Kipling (Kipling Reconsidered, 1989), and he now adds a full-scale biography of Kipling to the four already published since 1999 (Andrew Lycett, 1999; Harry Ricketts, 1999; David Gilmour, 2002; Andrew Hagiioannu, 2003). Both he and Hagiioannu cover similar ground to provide context for Kipling's fiction; but Hagiioannu, guided by cultural historians such as Bhabha, Fanon, Hobsbaum and Said,...
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