Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Empire and the Gothic

The Politics of Genre

  • Book
  • © 2003

Overview

Editors:
  1. Andrew Smith

    1. University of Glamorgan, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. William Hughes

    1. Bath Spa University College, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 89.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: The Enlightenment Gothic and Postcolonialism

    • Andrew Smith, William Hughes
    Pages 1-12

  3. Discovering Eastern Horrors: Beckford, Maturin and the Discourse of Travel Literature

    • Massimiliano Demata
    Pages 13-34

  4. Charlotte Dacre’s Postcolonial Moor

    • Kim Ian Michasiw
    Pages 35-55

  5. Frankenstein and Devi’s Pterodactyl

    • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
    Pages 56-68

  6. Pushkin and Odoevsky: the ‘Afro-Finnish’ Theme in Russian Gothic

    • Neil Cornwell
    Pages 69-87

  7. A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    • William Hughes
    Pages 88-102

  8. Beyond Colonialism: Death and the Body in H. Rider Haggard

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 103-117

  9. Horror, Circus and Orientalism

    • Helen Stoddart
    Pages 118-135

  10. Burning Down the Master’s (Prison)-House: Revolution and Revelation in Colonial and Postcolonial Female Gothic

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 136-154

  11. Crossing Boundaries: the Revision of Gothic Paradigms in Heat and Dust

    • Mariaconcetta Costantini
    Pages 155-171

  12. The Ghastly and the Ghostly: the Gothic Farce of Farrell’s ‘Empire Trilogy’

    • Victor Sage
    Pages 172-191

  13. Arundhati Roy and the House of History

    • David Punter
    Pages 192-207

  14. The Number of Magic Alternatives: Salman Rushdie’s 1001 Gothic Nights

    • Andrew Teverson
    Pages 208-228

  15. Coetzee and the Animals: the Quest for Postcolonial Grace

    • Dominic Head
    Pages 229-244

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 245-248
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This innovative 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 postcolonial 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. Contributors include Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Punter and Neil Cornwell.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Glamorgan, UK

    Andrew Smith

  • Bath Spa University College, UK

    William Hughes

About the editors

NEIL CORNWELL Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol MARIACONCETTA CONSTANTINI Associate Professor of English, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Percara (Italy) CAROL MARGARET DAVISON Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Windsor MASSIMILIANO DEMATA Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bari, Italy DOMINIC HEAD Professor of English, Brunel University WILLIAM HUGHES Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Bath Spa University KIM IAN MICHASIW Associate Professor and Chair of English, York University DAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of Bristol VICTOR SAGE Professor of English Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia ANDREW SMITH Senior Lecturer in English, University of Glamorgan GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University HELEN STODDART Lecturer in Film and Literature, Keele University ANDREW TEVERSON Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation