ABSTRACT
On September 14, 1857, an anonymous writer published a brief column for the Nation, a nationalist and anticolonial weekly newspaper published in Dublin throughout the Victorian period. In it, he provides Irish readers with a critique of British writings about the Sepoy Rebellion. This passage is typical of a critique that emerged over the course of 1857 in the Irish nationalist press, one that interrogated representations of the revolt in newspaper and literary writings published in Britain. The sensational and the gothic are closely related and interpenetrated forms in the nineteenth century, sometimes indistinguishable or with sensation functioning as a strategy within gothicism. It is not surprising that this column and the archive of Irish writing of which it is a part appear in Ireland in the context of the Sepoy Rebellion. This passage from the Nation demonstrates how the gothic is redeployed to unmask the larger system of violence of which events such as Cawnpore were a part.
