Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker

Richard Jorge completed his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where he researched the relationship between the short story and the Irish Gothic tradition in the writings of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker. He has worked at various universities and has also taught literature at an IB International school. Currently, Richard is teaching at the Department of English, German and Translation and Interpretation Studies in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain, while continuing with his research on the Irish short story in the nineteenth century. Recent publications include Anglo-Irish Representations and Postcolonial Discourse in J. S. Le Fanu's "The Familiar" (Nineteenth Century Contexts, 2021), Untranslatable Characters: James Clarence Mangan and the English Language (English Studies, 2021), Debunking Protestant Celticism: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Language Appropriation in "The Quare Gander" and An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street (Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 2020).

• Chapter 1:Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Spaces in which I/Eye Gaze: J.C. Mangan’s Satirical Appropriation of Colonial Views.- Chapter 3: J.S. Le Fanu’s Rhetoric of Nostalgia and the No-Home.- Chapter 4: The Anti-Colonial Heart of Rural Ireland: Possession and Dispossession in Bram Stoker’s Short Fiction.- Chapter 5: Roaming the World Around: Exile in J.C. Mangan’s Narratives.- Chapter 6: Haunted Manor Houses and Bumping Monsters: The Paradigm of the No Home in J.S. Le Fanu’s narratives.- Chapter 7: Adverse Landscapes, Unwelcoming Homes: (Un)Heroic Colonial Journeys in Bram Stoker’s Short Fictions.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.