Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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