NEIL CORNWELL Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of BristolMARIACONCETTA CONSTANTINI Associate Professor of English, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Percara (Italy)CAROL MARGARET DAVISON Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of WindsorMASSIMILIANO DEMATA Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bari, ItalyDOMINIC HEAD Professor of English, Brunel UniversityWILLIAM HUGHES Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Bath Spa UniversityKIM IAN MICHASIW Associate Professor and Chair of English, York UniversityDAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of BristolVICTOR SAGE Professor of English Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East AngliaANDREW SMITH Senior Lecturer in English, University of GlamorganGAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia UniversityHELEN STODDART Lecturer in Film and Literature, Keele UniversityANDREW TEVERSON Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London

• 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

NEIL CORNWELL Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of BristolMARIACONCETTA CONSTANTINI Associate Professor of English, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Percara (Italy)CAROL MARGARET DAVISON Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of WindsorMASSIMILIANO DEMATA Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bari, ItalyDOMINIC HEAD Professor of English, Brunel UniversityWILLIAM HUGHES Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Bath Spa UniversityKIM IAN MICHASIW Associate Professor and Chair of English, York UniversityDAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of BristolVICTOR SAGE Professor of English Literature, School of English and American Studies, University of East AngliaANDREW SMITH Senior Lecturer in English, University of GlamorganGAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia UniversityHELEN STODDART Lecturer in Film and Literature, Keele UniversityANDREW TEVERSON Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London

• 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