John Drew

Bio

John Drew is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Open Access archive of Charles Dickens's periodical journalism, Dickens Journals Online (www.djo.org.uk). His research interests embrace periodical studies, Dickens Studies, and genre.

Contributions

“I will show you where your son lies”: Relocating Kipling’s “The Gardener” in 1920s Print Culture

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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 and hierarchies aside, the cultural materialist might find reasons enough for promoting a re-evaluation of the story in...

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