Abstract

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.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article accepted for publication by Edinburgh University Press in Gothic Studies. The Version of Record will be available online at: https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/gothic
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Departments:	School of Arts & Social Sciences > English
Date available in CRO:	25 Feb 2021 11:16
Date deposited:	25 February 2021
Date of acceptance:	22 June 2021
Date of first online publication:	1 November 2021
URI:	https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25720

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