Booklist – Criticism – The Kipling Society

Author	Title	Publisher	Location	Year	Notes
Amalric, J.C. (Ed.)	Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens (No.33)	Université Paul Valéry	Montpellier	1991	Devoir et Liberté: The Ship That Found Herself by E Hanquart-Turner.
Amis, Kingsley	Rudyard Kipling	Thames & Hudson	London	1975	A brief illustrated introduction, very well reviewed.
Anon.	ABC: Role-playing in Kipling;s Airship Utopia	Games Review Magazine	Swanage	1990	Article in magazine.
Anon.	Giants of Literature - Kipling	Sampson Lowe Marsden	London	1971
Bauer, Helen Pike	Rudyard Kipling - A Study of the Short Fiction	Twayne Publishers	New York City	1994	A valuable work with useful chronology and bibliography.
Bayley, John	The Uses of Division	Chatto and Windus	London	1976
Bayley, John	The Short Story in English	Harvester Press	Brighton	1988
Bratton, Jacqueline S.	Kipling's Magic Art	Oxford University Press		1980	Text of Chatterton Lecture at the British Academy, 1978. Pamphlet.
Bodelsen, C.A	Aspects of Kipling's Art	Manchester Univ. Press		1964	Author was Professor of English Language and Literature at Copenhagen University.
Braybrooke, Patrick	Kipling and His Soldiers	C.W.Daniel Co.	London	1925
Brion, Marcel	Rudyard Kipling	La Nouvelle Revue Critique	Paris	1929
Brion, Marcel	Rudyard Kipling				Typescript of English translation of the above.
Brogan, Hugh	Kipling After Fifty Years	RSA Journal	London	1986	Paper given to the Royal Society of Arts on 23 January 1986.
Brogan, Hugh	Mowgli's Sons - Kipling and Baden Powell's Scouts	Jonathan Cape	London	1987
Catagner, Claude (Ed.)	Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens (No.50)	Université Paul Valéry	Montpellier	1999	La Musique Populaire des Iles Britanniques (1835-1915).
Cherry, F.R.	The Concept of the Law in Rudyard Kipling's Verse			1959	Typescript of thesis presented at Hull University.
Clark, Charles Gordon	Christianity in Kipling's Verse			1982	Article in 'Theology' (January).
Clarke, W.J.	See G.F.Monkshood (Nom de plume).
Coates, John	The Day's Work: Kipling and the Idea of Sacrifice	Fairleigh Dickinson University Pr.		1997
Colley, Terry	Rudyard Kipling: Poet of the People			1994	Typescript of study presented for BA degree at Humberside University.
Croft-Cooke, Rupert	Rudyard Kipling	Home & Van Thal	London	1948	A brief (108pp.) account.
Crook, Nora	Kipling's Myths of Love and Death	Macmillan & Co.	London	1989	Author focuses on 'Mrs. Bathurst', 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes', Mary Postgate' and 'A Madonna of the Trenches'.
Dillingham, William B.	Rudyard Kipling, Hell and Heroism	Palgrave Macmillan	New York	2005
Dillingham, William B.	Being Kipling	Palgrave Macmillan	New York	2008
Dillingham, William B	Rudyard Kipling: Life, Love, and Art	ELT Press	Greensboro North Carolina	2013
Dobrée, Bonamy	Rudyard Kipling	Longmans Green	London	1951	Pamphlet produced for the British Council & the National Book League.
Dobrée, Bonamy	Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist	Oxford University Press	London	1967
Dormois, Jean-Pierre (Ed.)	Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens (No.48)	Université Paul Valéry	Montpellier	1998	Economic and Social Issues in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Dunman, Jack	Rudyard Kipling Re-estimated	Marxism Today.	Aug	1965	Article in journal. Two copies.
Durand, Ralph	A Handbook to the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling	Hodder & Stoughton	London	1914
Edwardes, Michael	Rudyard Kipling and the Imperial Imagination	Twentieth Century		1953	Article in journal (June).
Escarpit, Robert	Rudyard Kipling: Servitude et Grandeur Imperiale	Hachette	Paris	1955	French paperback.
Everett, Barbara	Why Do We Admire Jane Austin			1996	Article in 'London Review of Books', 8/2/96.
Falls, Cyril	Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study	Martin Secker	London	1915
Feeley, Margaret Peller	The Kim That Nobody Reads	Univ.of Wisconsin	Whitewater, WI	1981	Article from 'Studies in the Novel', Fall 1981.
Ferguson, J. Delancey	The Education of Rudyard Kipling			1924	Article in 'Education' (November) given by author.
Foote, Timothy	Fifty Years On, 'O Best Beloved'			1986	Article in 'The Smithsonian', (January). Kipling is making a comeback after fifty years.
Frost, J.R.	Kim Notes	Coles Publg. Co.Ltd.	Toronto	1962	School textbook.
Gauger, Wilheim	Wandlungsmotive in Rudyard Kipling's Prosawerk	Wilheim Fink	Munich	1975	Discussion of the changeling motif.
Green, Roger Lancelyn	Kipling and the Children	Elek Books	London	1965
Green, Roger Lancelyn (Ed.)	Kipling, The Critical Heritage	Eoutledge and Kegan Paul	London	1971
Haefs, Gisbert	Kipling Companion	Haffmans Verlag	Zurich	1987	In German.
Hardacre, K.	Rudyard Kipling's Kim	James Brodie Ltd.	Bath		Notes on chosen school exam text, ca.1930. Paperback.
Harrison, James	Rudyard Kipling	Twayne Publishers	Boston, MA	1982
Hart, Walter Morris	Kipling, the Story-Writer	University of California Press	Berkeley	1918
Havholm, Peter	Politics and Awe in Kipling's Fiction	Ashgate	London	2008
Henn, T.R.	Kipling	Oliver & Boyd	Edinburgh	1967	Pamphlet in 'Writers and Critics' series.
Hopkins, G. & R.Thurston	Literary Originals of Sussex	Alex J. Philip	Gravesend	1936
Hopkins, R.Thurston	Rudyard Kipling - A Character Study	Simkin Marshall H&K	London	1921
Hopkins, R.Thurston	Rudyard Kipling - A Literary Appreciation	Simkin Marshall H&K	London	1916
Hopkins, R.Thurston	Rudyard Kipling - The Story of a Genius	Cecil Palmer	London	1930
Hopkins, R.Thurston	Rudyard Kipling - A Survey of His Literary Art	Digby Long	London	1914
Hopkins, R.Thurston	Rudyard Kipling's World	Robert Holden & Co.	London	1925
Hopkirk, Peter	A Quest for Kim	John Murray	London	1996	A fascinating study. Inscribed to the Kipling Society by the author.
Hopkirk, Peter	A Quest for Kim	John Murray	London	1996	Second copy of the above.
Hughes, Randolph	Kipling - Une Appréciation Anglaise	Mercure de France		1936	Photocopy, 15pp.
Islam, Shamsul	Kipling's Law - A Study of his Philosophy of Life	Macmillan & Co.	London	1975	Foreword by J.M.S.Tompkins.
Jammiluddin, K.	The Tropic Sun - Rudyard Kipling and the Raj	Lucknow University		1974	A serious and interesting study. Paperback.
Jensen, Johanis V.	Rudyard Kipling	V. Pios Boghandel	Copenhagen	1912	Paperback in Danish.
Judd, Denis	Kipling's Imperialism (Jubilee angst in 1887)			1997	Article in 'History Today' (June).
Karlin, Daniel (Ed.)	Rudyard Kipling, a critical edition of the major works	Oxford University Press		1999	Excellent notes
Kavanagh, Julie	Books! Books! Books!			1987	Article on resurgence of Kipling as he comes out of copyright from 'Harpers & Queen' (February).
Keating, Peter	Kipling the Poet	Secker & Warburg	London	1994
Kemp, Sandra	Kipling's Hidden Narratives	Basil Blackwell	Oxford	1988
King, Ronald	A Theory Regarding 'An Habitation Enforced'.			1985	Documents backing a theory put forward in the Kipling Journal, Dec.1985, p.34.
Krarup,, Soren	Det Tavse Flertal	Tidehvervs Forlag		1987	Conservative Danish clergyman approving of the ethos of Stalky.
Kurth, Rudiger	Rudyard Kipling's Imperial Poetry in Seven Seas		Bonn	1968	Typescript thesis in German. Summary in English.
Lane, John	See Richard Le Gallienne, 'Rudyard Kipling - A Criticism' for an early Kipling bibliography, 1881-1899.
Laski, Marganita	From Palm to Pine	Sidgewick & Jackson	London	1987	'Rudyard Kipling - At Home and Abroad'.
Lauterbach, Edward S.	Review, Aspects of Kipling's Art, Bodelsen	Eng. Lit in Transition	Lafayette, IN	1966	Vol. 7, No. 4, p.245
Lauterbach, Edward S.	Review, Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard (Ed. Cohen)	Eng. Lit in Transition	Lafayette, IN	1966	Vol. 9, No. 2, p.111
Lazzeri, Giancarlo	L'India e L'Impero in Rudyard Kipling	University of Florence		1979	Typescript of thesis in Italian.
Le Gallienne, Richard	Rudyard Kipling - A Criticism	John Lane (Bodley Head)	London	1900	Early book on Kipling. Contains substantial bibliographical material prepared by John Lane. Copy of Beerbohm's "notorious improvement" to the frontispiece enclosed. See also (SS36) Anice Page Cooper, Rudyard Kipling.
Lerner, Fred et al	Niekas Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 44		Center Harbor, NH	1994	Science fiction journal with a special feature on Kipling.
Lewis, Lisa	Kipling and Virginia Woolf			1998	Article in 'English Literature in Transition' Vol.41 No.3. Given by Lisa Lewis.
Lewis, Lisa	Some Links Between the Stories in Debits and Credits			1982	Article in 'English Literature in Transition' Vol.25 No.2. Given by Lisa Lewis.
McKay, George	Kay Dick's 'They' and Rudyard Kipling's 'They'	Foundation	London	1993	'Intertextual Politicisation & the Grand End of Narrative'. Article in 'Review of Science Fiction' No.58.
MacMunn, Lt.Gen. Sir George	Kipling's Women	Sampson Lowe Marston	London	1933
MacMunn, Lt.Gen. Sir George	Rudyard Kipling, Craftsman	Robrt Hale & Co.	London	1937
Manley, Seon	Rudyard Kipling - Creative Adventurer	Vanguard Press	New York City	1963
Mason, Philip	Kipling - The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire	Jonathan Cape	London	1975	Having loved Kipling as a child, disliked him as a student, then ignored him for thirty years Mason (ex-ICS) documents his return to him in retirement.
Maurois, André	Poets and Prophets	Cassell	London	1936	(tr. Hamish Miles)
McClure, John A	Kipling and Conrad, The Colonial Fiction	Harvard University Press		1981
Monkshood, G.F. (W.J.Clarke)	Rudyard Kipling - An Attempt at Appreciation	Greening & Co.	London	1899	Illustrated. First book on Kipling published in England. G.F.Monkshood is the nom de plume of W.J.Clarke.
Monkshood, G.F. (W.J.Clarke)	The Less Familiar Kipling and Kiplingiana	Jarrold & Sons	London	1917	Includes substantial bibliographical information. Illustrated.
Monkshood, G.F. (W.J.Clarke)	The Less Familiar Kipling and Kiplingiana	Jarrold & Sons	London	1936	Revised edition of above.
Montefiore, Janet	Rudyard Kipling	Northcote	London	2007
Montefiore, Janet	In Time's Eye	Manchester U. Press	Manchester	2013	Essays on Rudyard Kipling
Moore, Julian	Rudyard Kipling's Ode	Kipling Society of Australia	Melbourne	1999	Critical account of the genesis of the poem Kipling wrote for the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance in 1934. Four copies.
Moore, Katherine	The White Man's Burden	Faber & Faber	London	1968	One of a 'Study Series' on the teaching of history. Paperback.
Moore-Gilbert, B.J.	Kipling and Orientalism	Croom Helm	London	1986	Given by Lisa Lewis.
Morrell, David M.	Kipling's Verses - An Evaluation of the Major Themes		Bloemfontein	1975	Typescript of a thesis.
Moss, Robert F.	Rudyard Kipling and the Fiction of Adolescence	Macmillan & Co.	London	1982
Munro, John	Kipling's Kim and Co-existence	Eng. Lit in Transition	Lafayette, IN	1964	Vol. 7, No. 4, p.222
Nagai, Kaori	Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland	Cork Universoty Press	Cork	2006
Nicolis, Nicoletta	Rudyard Kipling - L'Esperienza Americana			1988	Thesis presented at University of Verona. Bound typescript.
Orel, Harold	Rudyard Kipling and the Establishment	Duke University Press	Durham, NC	1982	Offprint from 'South Atlantic Quarterly' Vol.81.
Orel, Harold	Rudyard Kipling and the Establishment			1982	Brief summary of above article in 'The Wilson Quarterly'.
Ormond, Leonée	Macmillan Master Guide to Kim	Macmillan & Co.	Basingstoke	1988	Paperback 'geared to the requirements of major examination boards'. Paperback, 88pp. Presented by Prof. Ormond.
Paffard, Mark	Kipling's Indian Fiction	Macmillan & Co.	London	1989
Palmer, John	Rudyard Kipling	Nisbet & Co.	London	1915	'Writers of the Day' series.
Parry, Ann	The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling	Open University Press	Buckingham	1992	Paperback.
Parsons, E.M.	Notes on Rudyard Kipling's Kim	Methuen Paperbacks	London	1979	Study notes.
Peterson, William S.	The Light That Failed: Kipling's Version of Decadence	Eng. Lit in Transition	Lafayette, IN	1966	Vol. 9, No. 3, p.153
Pinney, Thomas (Ed.)	"The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories"	Cambridge University Press	Cambridge	2019	Annotated collection of previously uncollected prose fiction
Pinney, Thomas	The Kipling That Nobody Reads	Magdalene College	Cambridge	1998	Paper on the more esoteric works of Kipling. Pamphlet.
Randall, Don	Kipling's Imperial Boy	Palgrave	Basingstoke	2000	The sub-title is 'Adolescence and Cultural Hybridity'.
Rao, K. Bhaskara	Rudyard Kipling's India	Univ. of Oklahoma Press		1967	Rao believes Kipling did damage to Anglo-Indian relations.
Rawlinson, David	The Tremendous Puzzle: Kipling's Stories	La Trobe University		1987	Article (11pp.) in 'Meridian - La Trobe University English Revue' Vol.6 No.2.
Roberton, William	The Kipling Guide Book — A Handy Guide to Rudyard Kipling, His Life and Writings with a Bibliography of His Works	The Holland Company	Birmingham	1899	Norman Kerr of Cartmel was offering a copy in 1992 for £35.00; his catalogue included 'A scarce and very early piece of Kiplingiana; Clarke's (Monkshood's) "Rudyard Kipling — An Attempt at Appreciation" appeared in the same year but the only earlier book that we can trace is Forster's "Notebook of Kipling" also published by the Holland Company in November 1898.' 52pp. Hardback
Robson, W. W.	The Jungle Books (Ed.)	Oxford University Press	Oxford	1987	Introduction to Oxford World Classics Edition of the Jungle Books
Rowse, A.L.	Kipling Reassessed	Blackwood's Magazine		1978	Review of Angus Wilson's The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling. (June issue).
Rutherford, Andrew	Some Aspects of Kipling's Verse	Oxford University Press		1965	Chatterton Lecture given at the British Association. Pamphlet.
Sarramon, Christian	Rudyard Kipling - Pour l'Honneur de l'Empire	Animan		1988	Article in French travel magazine.
Shahane, Vasant A.	Rudyard Kipling Activist and Artist	Southern Illinois UP	Carbondale IL	1975	An Indian response to Kipling's writings.
Shanks, Edward	Rudyard Kipling	Macmillan & Co.	London	1940	A Study in Literature and Political Ideas.
Shengold, Leonard	Soul Murder	Yale University Press	New Haven CT	1989	'The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation' by a New York psychiatrist.
Shepperson, George	The World of Rudyard Kipling	Oliver and Boyd	Edinburgh	1964	Ed. Andrew Rutherford
Suhnel, Rudolf	Kontemplation und Aktion	Carl Winter	Heidelberg	1972	Orient und Oksident im Werk von Rudyard Kipling.
Tompkins, J.M.S.	The Art of Rudyard Kipling	Methuen	London	1959	Major work of criticism.
Tompkins, J.M.S.	The Art of Rudyard Kipling	Univ. of Nebraska Press	Lincoln, NE	1965	Centenary edition with new introduction and textual corrections. Paperback.
Tompkins, J.M.S.	Kipling's Later Tales: The Theme of Healing	Cambridge Univ. Press		1950	Article in The Modern Language Review (January).
Webb, George	Kipling 1865-1936 - The Durability of His Work	The Round Table		1987	Offprint of article on the fiftieth anniversary of Kipling's death.
Webb, George	Kipling as a Regimental Historian	Army & Defence Journal		1989	Vol. 119, No. 1. (January).
Weygandt, Ann	Kipling's reading, and its influence on his poetry	University of Pennsylvania Press		1939
Whitehead, John	The Barrack Room Ballads	Hearthstone	Munslow	1997	Introduction and notes
Worster, W.	Merlin's Isle - A Study of Rudyard Kipling's England	Gyldendal	London
Nagai, Kaori	Imperial Beast Fables			2020
Rooney, C and Nagai, K (Eds)	Kipling and Beyond, Patriotism, Globalisation and Postcolonialism.			2020
Erickson, E	A Soldier’s Kipling, Poetry and the Profession of Arms			2018
Bubb, Alexander	Meeting without knowing, Kipling and Yeats			2010
Sergeant, David	Kipling’s Art of Fiction	Oxford Univ. Press	Oxford	2013
Hai, Ambreen	Making Words Matter	Ohio University Press	Athens	2009
McBratney, John	Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction of the Native-Born	Ohio State University Press	Columbus	2002
Moore-Gilbert, Bart	The Bhabhal of Tongues: Reading Kipling, Reading Bhabha (in Writing India)	Manchester University Press	Manchester	1996
Murari, Timeri N	The Imperial Agent	Hodder and Stoughton	London	1987
Norbu, Jamyang	The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes	Harper Collins	Delhi	1999
Parry, Ann	The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling	Open University Press	Buckingham	1992
Rushdie, Salman	‘Kipling’ in Imaginary Homelands	Viking	New York	1991
Said, Edward	Culture and Imperialism	Chatto and Windus	London	1993
Sullivan, Zohreh	Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling	Cambridge University Press	Cambridge	1993
Williams, Patrick	‘Kim and Orientalism’ in Kipling Reconsidered	Macmillan	Basingstoke	1989