| Description |
xiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Micasiw -- 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 postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula / William Hughes -- Beyond coloniality : 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 Gothic / Carol 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. |
| Subject |
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, English. |
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Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, English. |
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Decolonization in literature.
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Decolonization in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Literary form.
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Literary form. |
| Added Author |
Smith, Andrew, 1964-
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Hughes, William, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0333984056 cloth |
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