Empire and the Gothic

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