UID:
edocfu_9961267603602883
Format:
1 online resource (205 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031403910
Series Statement:
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature Series
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Postcolonialism, Ireland and the Nineteenth Century -- Irish Gothic in the Nineteenth Century -- The Irish Gothic Short Story and the Nineteenth Century -- Setting the Scene-Postcolonialism, Nineteenth-Century Irish Gothic Short Fiction and the Writings of J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker -- Survey of Chapters -- References -- Chapter 2: The Spaces in Which I/Eye Gaze: J.C. Mangan's Satirical Appropriation of Colonial Views -- Parsing Space, Appropriating the Gazing Eye -- A Hyperbolic Style-Satire as a Decolonising Tool -- A Depressing Landscape -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: J.S. Le Fanu's Rhetoric of Nostalgia and the No-Home -- Noble Castle, Static Visions -- The Anglo-Irish Manor as a No-Home -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Anticolonial Heart of Rural Ireland: Possession and Dispossession in Bram Stoker's Short Fiction -- A Colonial System in Warped Replica -- Communal Spaces and Shared Revolts-"The Man from Shorrox" -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Roaming the World Around: Exile in J.C. Mangan's Narratives -- Bargaining the Social Ladder-Exoticism and the Figure of the Colonised Exile -- Roaming the Earth and Back-Colonial Exiles -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Haunted Manor Houses and Bumping Monsters: The Paradigm of the No-Home in J.S. Le Fanu's Narratives -- A Pattern of Urban Encasement -- The Unredeemed Ghosts of the Anglo-Irish Manor -- Unsettling Monsters of the Mind -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Adverse Landscapes, Unwelcoming Homes: (Un)Heroic Colonial Journeys in Bram Stoker's Short Fictions -- No Return Home: Nature as an Anticolonial Element -- Disowning the Colonial Hero -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Conclusions -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Jorge, Richard Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu and Bram Stoker Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2023 ISBN 9783031403903
Language:
English
