Scribner’s Magazine, 137
Second Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 128
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 6, 121, 122
Sendak, Maurice, Where the Wild Things Are, 8, 123
Shakespeare, William, 3, 4, 11, 155
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 94
Sherrod, Robert, 211
Simla, 31, 41, 100, 167
Simpson, Charles O., 93
“Skerry of Shrieks, The” (Longfellow), 44
“Skipper Ireson’s Ride” (Whittier), 152
slaughterhouses, 25–26, 117
slavery, 168–69
Sleeman, W. H., 115–17, 168
Smith, Erasmus Peshine, 66–67
Smithsonian Institution, 127, 128, 130
“Snow Man, The” (Stevens), 106
Society for Psychical Research, 40, 41, 199, 200
Something of Myself (Kipling), 36–37, 41, 54, 85, 86, 101, 128, 130, 146, 157, 188, 190–91, 198, 200
“Song of Hiawatha, The” (Longfellow), 36–37
“Song of the Wise Children” (Kipling), 67
South Africa, 187–90, 219
“South Africa” (Kipling), 190
Spanish-American War, 8, 172, 173, 189, 204, 205
spiritualism and the paranormal, 8, 40–44, 198
Spring Rice, Cecil, 126, 128
Stanton, Edwin, 133
Stein, Aurel, 192
Stevens, Wallace, 106
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 59–60, 66, 177–78
“Still I Rise” (Angelou), 4–5
Stoker, Bram, 54, 62
“Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The” (Kipling), 152
Syria, 204
Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs), 8, 112, 117
Taylor, Caroline, 34
Taylor, Maxwell, 209
tea, 72–73
teddy bears, 138–39
Tennant, Winifred Coombe (“Mrs. Willet”), 42–44
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 201
Teutonic, SS, 62, 63, 212
Theosophy, 41
“They” (Kipling), 196–97, 200
Thirkell, Angela, 159, 181
Thoreau, Henry David, 121
Tid-Bits, 51
Time, 211
Trial, The (Kafka), 177
Twain, Henry, 199–200
Twain, Mark, 2, 3, 6–8, 15–17, 20–25, 28–30, 36, 41, 45, 51, 54, 63, 115, 167–69, 186–90, 211
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 20, 23–24, 166, 167, 169
brother and, 199–200
Oxford degree awarded to, 185–86, 186, 190
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 103
United States, 5
African Americans in, 25
American Revolution, 34–35
Civil War in, 17, 29, 50, 94, 133, 150, 172
Gilded Age in, 1, 7
imperialism of, 4, 8, 171–75, 179
Kipling and, 6–8, 18, 35–36, 98, 109, 117–18, 156, 171–72, 180, 182–83, 188, 194, 212
Kipling’s journey across, 19–28, 31–36, 45, 55, 131
Monroe Doctrine of, 145
Native Americans in, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169
New England, 1–2, 63
Philippines and, 172–75, 189, 204, 207, 211
in Spanish-American War, 8, 172, 173, 189, 204, 205
Venezuela and, 2, 144–46, 171
in Vietnam War, see Vietnam War
women in, 24–27, 118–19
University of Manchester, 4
Venezuela, 2, 144–46, 171
Victoria, Queen, 179
Vietnam War, 5, 8, 203–12, 215, 219–20
films on, 215–16
Kim and, 204–8, 220
The Man Who Would Be King and, 216–18
“you can’t hurry/hustle the East” and, 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219
Virginian, The (Wister), 94
war, 7–9
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 147, 149, 151
Washington, D.C., 31, 125–28
Washington, George, 3, 193–94
Washington Post, 138
Washington Zoo, 8, 127–28, 130–32
Wellesley College, 34
Wesley, John, 97
Wesselhoeft, Robert, 93
Wesselhoeft Water Cure, 92–94
Westminster Abbey, 4, 199–201
Westmoreland, William, 210–11, 219–20
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 8, 123
“White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling), 4, 174–77, 179, 180, 204
“White Seal, The” (Kipling), 144
Whitman, Walt, 6, 18, 25, 36, 102
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 152
Wilkins, Mary, see Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Willet, Mrs., 42–44
Williams, Roger, 120
Wilson, Edmund, 4
“Wireless” (Kipling), 39
“Wish House, The” (Kipling), 90
Wister, Owen, 94, 150
“Without Benefit of Clergy” (Kipling), 5
Wolcott, Oliver, 48
wolves, 119–22
Indian wolf-child stories, 115–16, 168
in The Jungle Book, 111–15, 113, 117
“Woodnotes” (Emerson), 121
Woolf, Virginia, 4
World’s Fair, 149
World War I, 187, 197–200
World War II, 208
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 89
Yaami Hotel, 68–69
Yeats, W. B., 11
Yellowstone National Park, 24, 129–31
Yokohama, 65, 71, 72, 74, 75, 81, 159
Zola, Émile, 103
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books, he has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Benfey has written four books about the American Gilded Age including A Summer of Hummingbirds, which won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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