Dracula: An International Perspective

by Marius-Mircea Cri?an (Editor)

Overview

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic. As well as the transformation of the Gothic location—from castles, cemeteries and churches to the modern urban gothic—this volume explores the evolution of the undead considering a range of media from the 19^th century protagonist to sympathetic contemporary vampires of teen Gothic. Based on an interdisciplinary approach (literature, tourism, and film), the book argues that the development of the Dracula myth is the result of complex international influences and cultural interactions. Offering a multifarious perspective, this volume is a reference work that will be useful to both academic and general readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319633657
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/12/2017
Series:	Palgrave Gothic
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Marius-Mircea Crișan is Associate Professor at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. He is the author of The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker's Transylvania (2013) and The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional Representation of the Romanian Space (2013).

Table of Contents

1. “Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will”: Dracula in international contexts - Marius-Mircea Crişan.- 2. The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic - William Hughes.- 3. The Discourse of Italy in Nineteenth Century Irish Gothic: Maturin’s Fatal Revenge, Le Fanu’s exotic tales, and The Castle of Savina - Donatella Abbate Badin.- 4. “Bloodthirsty and Remorseless Fangs”: Representation of East-Central Europe in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short stories - Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Marius-Mircea Crișan.- 5. Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany - Sam George.- 6. Count Dracula’s Lifetime Identity and Address - Hans Corneel de Roos.- 7. Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London - Clive Bloom.- 8. Tourism and Travel in BramStoker’s Dracula - Duncan Light.- 9. Castle Hunedoara and the Dracula Myth: Connection or Speculation? - Marius-Mircea Crișan.- 10. Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations - Kristin L. Bone.- 11. In Search of Dracula’s Oracular History - John Edgar Browning.- 12. Vampiric Emotion and Identity in Dracula and Interview with the Vampire - Nancy Schumann.- 13. Gothic and Horror in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact - Magdalena Grabias.- 14. Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values? - Dorota Babilas.- 15. The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles - Carol Senf.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Kudos to Romanian scholar Marius-Mircea Crișan and his thirteen collaborators for producing this volume of insightful essays. This book is yet another testimonial to the enduring power of Stoker’s novel. The subject matter ranges from Edgar Allan Poe to the Pied Piper of Hamelin; the theme of parenting in vampire films to Dracula-centred tourism; the demonization of Italy in Irish Gothic to the Icelandic edition of Dracula. A veritable feast!” (Elizabeth Miller, Professor Emerita of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Co-editor of Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition, 2008)

“Studies of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula—and its countless adaptations—have up to now been dominated by British and American scholars, as part of the revival of interest in the Gothic. This volume adopts a series of fascinating and unusual international perspectives, and in so doing it sheds new light on the novel’s wider resonance. Even though the fictional Dracula had almostnothing to do with the real Romania, Dracula: An International Perspective has been cleverly edited by a Romanian scholar—so there are evidently no hard feelings...” (Sir Christopher Frayling, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art, Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and author of Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection, 2016)

Editorial Reviews

There is a real wealth of different topics here that often strays beyond strictly Dracula and would be a suitable resource to vampire or Gothic studies in general. … For those teaching Dracula it would be a great text to set on the reading list for courses that focused on any of the above. Individual chapters would also be a fantastic resource for anyone … .” (Matthew Crofts, Revenant, revenantjournal.com, Issue 9, 2023)

“Dracula: An International Perspective offers a kaleidoscopic view of how Dracula has generated new discourses within the Gothic and how it keeps influencing even our everyday reality. It should be an essential item in libraries of colleges and universities where Stoker’s vampire classic is on the reading list, for it indeed presents a variety of new perspectives of this neveraging novel.” (Ildikó Limpár, Hungarian Journalof English and American Studies, Vol. 25 (1), 2019)

From the Publisher