Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. DAWN
6. 1. From Dawn Island to Heart of Darkness 18
7. 2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryat’s Midshipmen 46
8. PART II. NOON
9. 3. Thackeray’s India 72
10. 4. Black Swans; or, Botany Bay Eclogues 109
11. 5. The New Crusades 135
12. 6. The Genealogy of the Myth of the “Dark Continent” 173
13. 7. The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 199
14. PART III. DUSK
15. 8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel , 1880–1914 226
16. 9. Epilogue: Kurtzs “Darkness” and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 254
17. Notes 275
18. Index 303