Visualising the Unseen: Supernatural Stories and Illustration in the Strand

Liggins, Emma

doi:10.1353/vpr.2019.0022

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“…Given that none of these periodicals was primarily associated with Gothic or supernatural fiction, the significance of which has perhaps been downplayed in scholarly analyses of them, Kipling's persistent Gothic streak is particularly striking. 21 As the following sections evince, the Gothic mode with its characteristic spatialities permeates Kipling's short fiction from his earliest Indian ghost stories, published in colonial newspapers, to late modernist War Gothic appearing in cosmopolitan illustrated monthlies.…”

Section: The Gothic Short Storymentioning

confidence: 97%

Traveller's Tales: Rudyard Kipling's Gothic Short Fiction

Vuohelainen

2021

Gothic Studies

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Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial and cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued in short-story collections. This corpus contains a number of critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: stories that belong to the ghost-story tradition; stories that represent the colonial encounter through gothic tropes of horror and the uncanny but do not necessarily include any supernatural elements; stories that develop an elegiac and elliptical Gothic Modernism; and stories that make use of the First World War and its aftermath as a gothic environment. This essay evaluates Kipling's contribution to the critically neglected genre of the Gothic short story, with a focus on the stories' persistent preoccupation with spatial tropes of travel, disorientation and displacement.

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Section: The Gothic Short Storymentioning

confidence: 97%