Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Kipling and the fin-de-siécle
- 2 India and empire
- 3 Kipling’s very special relationship: Kipling in America, America in Kipling
- 4 Science and technology
- 5 Kipling and gender
- 6 Kipling and war
- 7 Kipling as a children's writer and the Jungle Books
- 8 'Nine and sixty ways’: Kipling, ventriloquist poet
- 9 Kim
- 10 The later short fiction
- 11 Kipling and postcolonial literature
- 12 Kipling and the visual: illustrations and adaptations
- 13 Reading Kipling in India
- Further reading
- Index
12 - Kipling and the visual: illustrations and adaptations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Kipling and the fin-de-siécle
- 2 India and empire
- 3 Kipling’s very special relationship: Kipling in America, America in Kipling
- 4 Science and technology
- 5 Kipling and gender
- 6 Kipling and war
- 7 Kipling as a children's writer and the Jungle Books
- 8 'Nine and sixty ways’: Kipling, ventriloquist poet
- 9 Kim
- 10 The later short fiction
- 11 Kipling and postcolonial literature
- 12 Kipling and the visual: illustrations and adaptations
- 13 Reading Kipling in India
- Further reading
- Index
Summary
Many nineteenth-century writers have entered our visual age, one dominated by cinema and television; a number have managed to survive; only a few have positively thrived. Rudyard Kipling is in the latter group. The popularity of cinematic adaptations of his work has drawn fresh attention to his texts, reworking them within new cultural, historical and political contexts. Work in film studies has informed the closely related field that addresses the relationship between word and image; it can aid the exploration of illustrated editions of Kipling.
While film adaptations of Kipling began to be made in the 1910s, Kipling's works often appeared illustrated when they were first published. For the first Macmillan edition of Kipling's works published between 1894 and 1902, professional illustrators were commissioned including I. W. Taber, who worked on 'Captains Courageous' (1896), and H. A. Millar, who illustrated Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910). The illustration of this edition was not left to professional illustrators alone, however. Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, co-illustrated The Jungle Book (1894) and was the sole illustrator of The Second Jungle Book (1895) and Kim (1901), while Kipling himself provided images for the Just So Stories (1902).
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- The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling , pp. 169 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011