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  • 2.21 - Gothic Imperialism at the Fin de siècle

  • Edited by Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University, Angela Wright, University of Sheffield
  • Catherine Spooner, Lancaster University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Gothic
    Published online:
    18 July 2020
    Print publication:
    06 August 2020, pp 463-481

  • Summary

    This chapter explores how the Gothic in the late nineteenth century can be related to the different imperial contexts of India, Egypt and America. It argues that it is important to acknowledge the specificity of different colonialisms in order to situate the Gothic of the period and to understand its political complexity. The ghost stories of Rudyard Kipling, for example, challenge many of the colonial contexts that they ostensibly work within; in turn, Kipling’s ambivalent account of India reflects a politically conflicted view of British colonialism. Colonial ambivalence is also clear in the context of Britain’s seemingly illegitimate occupation of Egypt during the period. A number of mummy stories by Grant Allen, Eva M. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kate and Hesketh Prichard, which explore this specific colonial context, are discussed. The chapter concludes with an account of Bram Stoker’s change in attitude towards America as the country becomes increasingly cast as a colonial threat in Dracula (1897) and The Lady of the Shroud (1909).