Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on the text; IIntroduction Two Separate Sides to his Head: Kipling's Ambivalent India; 1 Paradise Lost: Kipling's Southsea Years; 2 Mastering the Law-of-the-Father in The Jungle Book and Stalky & Co.; 3 Empire of Contradictions: Desire for the Impossible Mother India in Kim; 4 The ¿Sorrowful State of Manhood': Kipling's Adults in India; 5 The Ascent from the Abyss: Dedication to Duty in The Day's Work; Conclusion This Other Eden: Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies; Bibliography; End Notes

**AUTHOR APPROVED** Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series edited by Julian Wolfreys Drawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and culture Rudyard Kipling's Fiction: Mapping Psychic Spaces Lizzy Welby Reads Kipling's fiction through the lens of French feminism to reinstate the abjected maternal feminine in his art This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. In doing so, it peels back the layers of masculine bravado that continues to characterize Kipling's fiction to reveal a valorized 'feminine' space. From readings of the 1888 story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep' through The Jungle Book and Stalky & Co., Kim, The Day's Work, Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies, Lizzy Welby demonstrates that Kipling created ways of rediscovering a symbolised feminine landscape as a restorative space, which was part of his 'psychic mapping'. Key Features: - Demonstrates a steady development through Kipling's long and extensive writing career - Provides insights into the man and his art as well as providing a new way of reading Kipling - References a considerable range of scholarly and biographical work on Kipling, historical and cultural studies of nineteenth century India - Offers close reading of passages from Kipling's fiction, showing how a feminised landscape is violated by (masculine) technological developments Dr Lizzy Welby is a creative and critical writer specialising in the works of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous. She has published articles and chapters on Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath and Angela Carter. In 2012, she was awarded third place at the Bridport Prize for Short Fiction for her story 'Jugged Hare'. She lives in London and teaches at the College Francais Bilingue de Londres. In 2014 she won first prize in the Lorian Hemingway short story competition for a story entitled 'The Breakers' s'.

Lizzy Welby teaches at the College Fançais Bilingue de Londres, London. She is an elected Council Member of The Kipling Society and has edited, with an introduction, Rudyard Kipling: Selected Verse (CRW Publishing, 2012). She has published articles on Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Angela Carter and Sylvia Plath. She is also winner of the 2014 Lorian Hemingway Short story Competition for a story entitled, 'The Breakers'.