Rule of Darkness -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Dawn -- 1. From Dawn Island to Heart of Darkness -- 2. Bringing Up the Empire: Captain Marryats Midshipmen -- Part II: Noon -- 3. Thackerays 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 1857 -- Part III: Dusk -- 8. Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914 -- 9. Epilogue: Kurtzs "Darkness" and Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' -- Notes -- Index.