Empire and the Gothic

The Politics of Genre

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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This volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of post-colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for post-colonial ends. Post-colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-12-13
Mått140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt442 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
Upplaga2003
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333984055

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ANDREW SMITH is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of Gothic Radicalism; Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century (2000). - WILLIAM HUGHES is Senior Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University College; His recent publications include Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (with Andrew Smith) and Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and its Cultural Context.

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Enlightenment Gothic and Postcolonialism; A.Smith and W.Hughes Discovering Eastern Horrors: Beckford, Maturin and the Discourse of Travel Literature; M.Demata Charlotte Dacre's Postcolonial Moor; K.Micashiw Frankenstein and Devi's Pterodactyl; G.C.Spivak Pushkin and Odoevsky: The 'Afro-Finnish' Theme in Russian Gothic ; N.Cornwell A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcolonialism of Bram Stoker's Dracula ; W.Hughes Beyond Colonialism: Death and the Body in H.Rider Haggard; A.Smith Horror, Circus and Orientalism; H.Stoddart Burning Down the Master's (Prison)-House: Revolution and Revelation in Colonial and Postcolonial Female Fiction; C.Davison Crossing Boundaries: The Revision of Gothic Paradigms in Heat and Dust ; M.Constantini The Ghastly and the Ghostly: The Gothic Farce of Farrell's Empire Trilogy; V.Sage Arundhati Roy and the House of History; D.Punter The Number of Magic Alternatives: Salman Rushdie's 1001 Gothic Nights; A.Teverson Coetzee and the Animals: The Quest for Postcolonial Grace ; D.Head Endnotes Index