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dc.contributor.advisorMallett, Phillip
dc.contributor.authorLouttit, Erin
dc.coverage.spatial205en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-23T15:49:19Z
dc.date.available2013-05-23T15:49:19Z
dc.date.issued2013-06
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/3543
dc.description.abstractThe thesis recontextualises the fiction of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writer Rudyard Kipling by exploring aspects of Victorian Buddhism in a selection of his published work. It demonstrates his engagement with a variety of Buddhist histories and cultures, showing a serious artistic and imaginative response to and interpretation of Buddhism. Focusing primarily on the novel Kim, the thesis develops existing criticism, examining the character of the lama. Additionally, it studies features of Victorian Buddhism other than textual sources, drawing on work by scholars in fields such as the history of art and the history of religion. As well as considering varied Buddhist elements in Kim, the thesis examines the theme of the survival of the soul, situating short stories from various periods of Kipling’s writing life in the context of scholarly debates about Nirvana and reincarnation. Attention is also given to critically neglected travel writing from the Letters of Marque series written for periodical publication. Kipling’s work is shown to be deeply concerned with and sympathetic to Buddhism and Buddhist cultures.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectRudyard Kiplingen_US
dc.subjectVictorian Buddhismen_US
dc.subjectKimen_US
dc.subject.lccPR4858.B8L7
dc.subject.lcshKipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--Criticism and interpretationen_US
dc.subject.lcshBuddhism--Great Britain--History--19th centuryen_US
dc.subject.lcshKipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Kimen_US
dc.subject.lcshKipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--Religionen_US
dc.titleRudyard Kipling and Victorian Buddhismen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.rights.embargodateElectronic copy restricted until 26th April 2018en_US
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulationsen_US


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