Dracula: An International PerspectiveMarius-Mircea Crișan 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 19th 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. |
Contents
1 | |
Le Fanu Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic | 20 |
Maturins Fatal Revenge Le Fanus Exotic Tales and The Castle of Savina | 39 |
Representation of EastCentral Europe in Edgar Allan Poes Gothic Short Stories | 53 |
Dream Work the Outsider and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany | 69 |
Count Draculas Address and Lifetime Identity | 94 |
Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London | 119 |
Tourism and Travel in Bram Stokers Dracula | 139 |
The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations | 178 |
In Search of Draculas Oracular History | 195 |
Vampiric Emotion and Identity in Dracula and Interview with the Vampire | 213 |
Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact | 227 |
Vampires for Family Values? | 243 |
Ruins Forests Urban Jungles | 258 |
275 | |
Connection or Speculation? | 157 |
Common terms and phrases
accessed March 18 Anne Rice Arata Asmundsson Auerbach blood Boner Borgo Pass Bram Stoker’s Dracula Bram Stoker’s Transylvania Bran Castle Browning’s Bucharest Carpathians Castle Dracula Castle Hunedoara characters cinema Claudia Clive Bloom contemporary Count Dracula Crişan cultural dark tourism Dracula myth Dracula Unearthed East End edited Elizabeth Miller English Fanu Fanu’s Fatal Revenge fear film Forks Frankenstein genre German Gothic fiction Grimm Hamelin Helsing History Hollywood Gothic horror human Hunedoara Castle identity Interview Irish Gothic Italy John Jonathan Harker Journal Leatherdale Lestat literary Literature London Lugosi Marius-Mircea Maturin McNally Metzengerstein modern Moldavia monster narrative Nosferatu Notes for Dracula Occidental tourist Orleans Oxford Pied Piper Poe’s Radu Florescu readers Rice’s Ripper Romanian Roos Routledge Search of Dracula sexual Stoker Stoker’s novel story supernatural tion tourism town Twilight Undead University Press vampire Victorian Vlad III Dracula Vlad Ţepeş Voivode Wallachia Westcliff-on-Sea Whitby York