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Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin

Cappel, Morgan Morgan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086

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2018, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, English.
This thesis examines several distinct tropes of Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic fiction: the haunted bungalow, the murderous servant, and the exotic Indian landscape. It situates the short stories of two women writers, Bithia Mary Croker and Alice Perrin, within the context of the Victorian Gothic and nineteenth-century sociohistorical factors, such as the Mutiny of 1857, Darwinian theory, and racial science. Contrary to the Imperial Gothic, a genre dominated by male writers and based on the distorted experiences of British colonizers throughout the Empire, the Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic is concerned with the lived colonial experience in British India. This study aims both to locate the subgenre within the literary history of the period and to expand the geography of the Victorian Gothic beyond its conventional settings on the mainland.
Heather Edwards (Advisor)
Joseph McLaughlin (Other)
97 p.
British and Irish Literature; Literature
Gothic; Colonial Gothic; Anglo-Indian fiction; Imperial Gothic; British India; British Imperialism; Victorian Gothic; Gothic geography; Alice Perrin; Bithia Mary Croker

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  • Cappel, M. M. (2018). Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cappel, Morgan. Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin. 2018. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cappel, Morgan. "Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086

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