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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 November 2017
      16 November 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316597217
      9781107153172
      9781316607084
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597217
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 240 Pages
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      (228 x 152 mm)
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      0.35kg, 240 Pages
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      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
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      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate.

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    Contents

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    Contents

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    References

    Guide to Further Reading

    Stoker

    Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996.
    Byron, Glennis (ed.). Dracula: New Casebook. New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 1999.
    Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
    Farson, Daniel. The Man Who Wrote Dracula: A Biography of Bram Stoker. London: Michael Joseph, 1975.
    Gibson, Matthew. Dracula and the Eastern Question: British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth-Century Near East. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.
    Glover, David. Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
    Greenway, John. ‘Seward’s Folly: Dracula as a Critique of “Normal Science”’, Stanford Literature Review 3 (1986), 213–30.
    Hughes, William. Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Reader’s Guide. London: Continuum, 2009.
    Hutchings, Peter. Dracula. London: I. B. Tauris, 2003.
    Kittler, Friedrich. ‘Dracula’s Legacy’, Stanford Humanities Review 1 (1989), 143–73.
    Leatherdale, Clive (ed.). The Origins of Dracula. London: William Kimber, 1975.
    Ludlam, Harry. A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker. London: Foulsham, 1962.
    Miller, Elizabeth (ed.). Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Documentary Volume. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
    Miller, Elizabeth and Eighteen-Bisang, Robert. Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.
    Murray, Paul. From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker. Rev. ed. Dublin: Fitzpress, 2016.
    Roth, Phyllis A. Bram Stoker. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
    Senf, Carol. Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism. New York: Twayne, 1998.
    Smith, Andrew and Hughes, William (eds.), Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1998.
    Stiles, Anne. ‘Bram Stoker’s Brother, the Brain Surgeon’, Progress in Brain Research 205 (2013), 197–218.

    Gothic Traditions

    Beresford, Matthew. From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth. London: Reaktion, 2008.
    Botting, Fred. ‘Dracula, Romance and Radcliffean Gothic’, Women’s Writing 1, no. 2 (1994), 181–201.
    Frayling, Christopher. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula. London: Faber, 1991.
    Gelder, Ken (ed.). The Horror Reader. London: Routledge, 2000.
    Groom, Nick. Gothic: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
    Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. London and Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
    Penzler, Otto (ed.). The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published. New York: Vintage, 2009.
    Punter, David. The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day. London: Longmans, 1980.
    Punter, David (ed.). A Companion to the Gothic. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
    Williamson, Milly. The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy. London: Wallflower, 2005.

    Contextual Readings

    Arata, Stephen D. ‘The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization’, Victorian Studies 33, no. 4 (1990), 621–45.
    Backus, Gayle. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
    Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial and Death: Folklore and Reality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
    Bentley, C. F. ‘The Monster in the Bedroom: Sexual Symbolism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’, Literature and Psychology 22, no. 1 (1972), 27–34.
    Bräunlein, Peter J. ‘The Frightening Borderlands of Enlightenment: The Vampire Problem’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43, no. 3 (2012), 710–19.
    Case, Alison. ‘Tasting the Original Apple: Gender and the Struggle for Narrative Authority in Dracula’, Narrative 1 (1993), 223–43.
    Chez, Keridiana. ‘“You Can’t Trust Wolves No More Nor Women”: Canines, Women, and Deceptive Docility in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’, Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies 38 (2012), 77–92.
    Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
    Funke, Jana. ‘“We Cannot Be Greek Now”: Age Difference, Corruption of Youth and the Making of Sexual Inversion’, English Studies 94, no. 2 (2013), 139–53.
    Galvan, Jill. ‘Occult Networks and the Legacy of the Indian Rebellion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’, History of Religions 54, no. 4 (2015), 434–58.
    Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire. London: Routledge, 1994.
    Gelder, Ken. New Vampire Cinema. London: Palgrave/British Film Institute, 2012.
    George, Sam and Hughes, Bill (eds.). Open Graves: Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.
    Gibson, Matthew. Dracula and the Eastern Question: British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth Century Near East. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.
    Glover, David. Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    Haggerty, George E. Queer Gothic. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
    Herbert, Christopher. ‘Vampire Religion’, Representations 79 (2002), 100–27.
    Kreuter, P. M. ‘The Name of the Vampire: Some Reflections on Current Linguistic Theories on the Etymology of the Word Vampire’, in Day, P. (ed.), Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 57–64.
    Ledger, Sally. The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.
    Linneman, Laura. ‘The Fear of Castration and Male Dread of Female Sexuality: The Theme of the “Vagina Dentata” in Dracula’, Journal of Dracula Studies 12 (2010), 11–28.
    Luckhurst, Roger. The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
    McDonald, Peter. British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880–1914. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    Moretti, Franco. ‘The Dialectic of Fear’, in Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays on the Sociology of Literary Forms. London: Verso, 1983.
    Olmstead, John Charles. The Victorian Art of Fiction: Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals 1870–1900. New York and London: Garland, 1979.
    Palmer, Paulina. Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions. New York: Continuum, 1999.
    Piatti-Farnell, Lorna. The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature. London: Routledge, 2013.
    Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder c.1848–c.1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
    Reyes, Xavier Aldana, ‘“Who Ordered the Hamburger with AIDS?” Haematophilic Semiotics in Tru(e) Blood’, Gothic Studies 15, no. 1 (2013), 55–65.
    Schaffer, Talia. ‘“A Wilde Desire Took Me”: The Homoerotic History of Dracula’, ELH 61, no. 2 (1994), 381–425.
    Senf, Carol, ‘Stoker’s Response to the New Woman’, Victorian Studies 26 (1982), 33–49.
    Showalter, Elaine. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle. London: Bloomsbury, 1991.
    Simmons, Clare A. ‘Fables of continuity: Bram Stoker and Medievalism’, in Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic, ed. Smith, Andrew and Hughes, William. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1998, pp. 29–46.
    Sparks, Tabitha. ‘Medical Gothic and the Return of the Contagious Diseases Acts in Stoker and Machen’, Nineteenth-Century Feminisms 6 (2002), 87–102.
    Stevenson, John Allen. ‘A Vampire in the Mirror: The Sexuality of Dracula’, PMLA 103, no. 2 (1988), 139–49.
    Summers, Montague. The Vampire (1928; London: Studio Editions, 1995).
    Twitchell, James. The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1986.
    Wicke, Jennifer. ‘Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and its Media’, ELH 59, no. 2 (1992), 467–93.
    Zanger, Jules. ‘A Sympathetic Vibration: Dracula and the Jews’, English Literature in Transition 34, no. 1 (1991), 33–44.

    III New Directions

    Byron, Glennis (ed.). Globalgothic. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.
    Case, Sue-Ellen. ‘Tracking the Vampire’, Differences 3 (1991), 1–20.
    Craft, Christopher, ‘“Kiss Me with Those Red Lips”: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’, Representations 8 (1984), 107–33.
    Fisher, Mark. The Weird and the Eerie. London: Repeater Books, 2016.
    Glover, David. Literature, Immigration and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
    Hughes, William and Smith, Andrew (eds.). Ecogothic. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
    Morton, Timothy. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
    Palmer, Paulina. The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012.
    Schopp, Andrew. ‘Cruising the Alternatives: Homoeroticism and the Contemporary Vampire’, The Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 4 (1997), 231–43.
    Thacker, Eugene. In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy I. Winchester: Zero Books, 2011).
    Viragh, Attila. ‘Can the Vampire Speak? Dracula as Discourse on Cultural Extinction’, English Literature in Transition 56, no. 2 (2013), 231–45.

    IV Adaptations

    Abbott, Stacey. Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007).
    Deane, Hamilton and Balderston, John. Dracula: The Ultimate Illustrated Edition of the World-Famous Vampire Play, ed. Skal, David J.. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
    Forshaw, Barry. British Gothic Cinema. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.
    Gelder, Ken. New Vampire Cinema. London: BFI, 2012.
    Hutchings, Peter. The Horror Film. Harlow: Longman, 2004.
    Jowett, Lorna and Abbott, Stacey. TV Horror: The Dark Side of the Small Screen. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2013.
    Pirie, David. A New Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2009.
    Rhodes, Gary D. Tod Browning’s Dracula. Sheffield: Tomahawk, 2014.
    Rigby, Jonathan. English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema, 1897–2015. Cambridge: Signum, 2015).
    Skal, David J. Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula From Novel to Stage to Screen. New York: Faber & Faber, 2004.
    Tudor, Andrew. Monsters and Mad Scientists: A Cultural History of the Horror Movie. London: Routledge, 1989.
    Waller, Gregory A. The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
    Weaver, Tom, Brunas, Michael, and Brunas, John. Universal Horrors: The Studio’s Classic Films, 1931–1946. 2nd edn. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
    Wheatley, Helen. Gothic Television. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006.
    Wynne, Catherine. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013.
    Wynne, Catherine (ed.). Bram Stoker and the Stage: Reviews, Reminiscences, Essays and Fiction. 2 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012.

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