Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre

by A. Smith (Editor), W. Hughes (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349430574
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Edition description:	1st ed. 2003
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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