Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre

by Jonathan Taylor, William Hughes, Andrew Smith

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349430579
• ISBN13: 9781349430574
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"