Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic

ISBN-13: 9781349268405 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 229 str.

Andrew Smith; William Hughes

Opis

Stoker is best remembered today as the author of Dracula . However, as the twelve essays in this volume demonstrate, Stoker's work blends the Gothic with the discourses of politics, sexuality, medicine and national identity to produce texts that may be read by a variety of critical methodologies. Following an Introduction that analyses how Stoker's writings have been critically received in the twentieth century, the book addresses not merely Dracula but also the author's other writings through historicism, psychology and genre.

Recenzje

'A must for people interested in either Dracula or Stoker, this book should be on the shelves of scholars of both turn-of-the-century thought and the Gothic.' - Carol A. Senf

'A stimulating addition to Stoker studies...Because every essay in this collection, including the introduction, affords new and worthwhile insights, it is easy to endorse the editors' claim that the volume 'provides an invaluable starting point for a re-theorising of Stoker's writings'.' - Irish Studies Review

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Bram Stoker, the Gothic and the Development of Cultural Studies; W. Hughes & A. Smith 'Powers Old and New': Stoker's Alliances with Anglo-Irish Gothic; A. Milbank Fables of Continuity: Bram Stoker and Medievalism; C.C. Simmons Vampiric Arts: Stoker's Defense of Poetry ; M. Kilgour Sex, History and the Vampire; R. Mighall Dracula and the Doctors: Bad Blood, Menstrual Taboo and the New Woman; M. Mulvey-Roberts The Alien and the Familiar in The Jewel of Seven Stars and Dracula ; R. Edwards Exchanging Fantasies: Sex and the Serbian Crisis in The Lady of the Shroud ; V. Sage Crowning the King, Mourning his Mother: The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lady of the Shroud ; L. Hopkins A Crucial Stage in the Writing of Dracula ; J.S. Bierman Echoes in the Animal House; The Lair of the White Worm ; D. Punter Eruptions of the Primitive into the Present: The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm ; D. Seed Stoker's Counterfeit Gothic: Dracula and Theatricality at the Dawn of Simulation; J.E. Hogle Index

O autorze

WILLIAM HUGHES is Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University College. He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and the University of East Anglia. He is the author of several articles on Stoker and a major bibliography of the author's works.

ANDREW SMITH is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of Dracula and the Critics and numerous articles on Gothic fiction and popular culture.