Haunted Oppressors: The Deconstruction of Manliness in the Imperial Gothic Stories of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle

Building on Patrick Brantlinger’s description of imperial Gothic fiction as “that blend of adventure story with Gothic elements”, this article compares the narrative formula of adventure fiction to two tales of haunting produced in a colonial context: Rudyard Kipling’s “The Mark of the Beast” (1890)...

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Main Author: Anna Berger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/4/122