An innovative study of Irish writing about India and imperialism, revealing how one colonised nation writes about another.

Julia M. Wright is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Introduction: Insensible Empire; Part I. National Feeling, Colonial Mimicry, and Sympathetic Resolutions: 1. 'National feeling': the politics of Irish sensibility; 2. Empowering the colonized; or, virtue rewarded; 3. Travellers, converts, and demagogues; Part II. Colonial Gothic and the Circulation of Wealth: 4. On the frontier: imitation and colonial wealth in Edgeworth and Lewis; 5. 'Some neglected children': thwarted colonial genealogies; 6. Stoker and Wilde: all points east; Conclusion; Bibliography.