“I will show you where your son lies”: Relocating Kipling’s “The Gardener” in 1920s Print Culture
If an old-fashioned liberal humanist excuse were needed for revisiting Kipling’s “The Gardener” it could be found through combining Phillip Mallett’s contention that “Kipling is the greatest English writer of the short story” with Edmund Wilson’s roundabout confession that he is “not sure that [The Gardener] is not really the best story that Kipling ever wrote.”[1] Greatness
Authors
- John Drew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2214-3112)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Modernism/Modernity Print Plus
- Published
- 2025-02-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0318
- Primary Topic
- Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00