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Title:

Empire and the Gothic : the politics of genre / edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Gothic revival (Literature)
Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
Decolonization in literature
Imperialism in literature
Postcolonialism
Literary form

Other Authors:

Smith, Andrew, 1964-
Hughes, William, 1964-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Enlightenment Gothic and postcolonialism / Andrew Smith and William Hughes -- Discovering Eastern horrors : Beckford, Maturin, and the discourse of travel literature / Massimiliano Demata -- Charlotte Dacre's postcolonial moor / Kim Ian Michasiw -- Frankenstein and Devi's pterodactyl / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Pushkin and Odoevsky : the 'Afro-Finnish' theme in Russian Gothic / Neil Cornwell -- A singular invasion : revisiting the postcolonialism of Bram Stoker's Dracula / William Hughes -- Beyond colonialism : death and the body in H. Rider Haggard / Andrew Smith -- Horror, circus and orientalism / Helen Stoddart -- Burning down the master's (prison)-house : revolution and revelation in colonial and postcolonial female fiction / Carol Margaret Davison -- Crossing boundaries : the revision of Gothic paradigms in Heat and dust / Mariaconcetta Costantini -- The ghastly and the ghostly : the Gothic farce of Farrell's Empire trilogy / Victor Sage -- Arundhati Roy and the house of history / David Punter -- The number of magic alternatives : Salman Rushdie's 1001 Gothic nights / Andrew Teverson -- Coetzee and the animals : the quest for postcolonial grace / Dominic Head.

ISBN:

9780333984055
0333984056 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50417352

LCCN:

2002029889

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)