Rule of darkness: British literature and imperialism, 1830-1914

Abstract

IntroductionPART I. DAWN 1. From Dawn Island to Heart of 2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryats MidshipmenPART II. NOON 3. Thackeray's India 4. Black Swans or, Botany Bay Eclogues 5. The New Crusades 6. The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent 7. The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857PART III. DUSK 8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914 9. Epilogue: Kurtz's Darkness and Conrad's Heart of DarknessNotes Index