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The popular appeal of Bram Stoker''s Count Dracula, now over a hundred years old, shows little sign of waning. No other monster has endured, and proliferated, in quite the same way - even if we now seem to prefer interviewing, rather than staking, our vampires. It is only over the last twenty years, however, that Dracula has begun to receive much serious critical attention. This volume collects the most significant contemporary work on the novel from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Marxist, Psychoanalytical, Historicist and Feminist giving a unique collection which engages with questions about the psychological and social significance of this highly transgressive and enduringly popular text.The popular appeal of Bram Stoker''s Count Dracula, now over a hundred years old, shows little sign of waning. No other monster has endured, and proliferated, in quite the same way - even if we now seem to prefer interviewing, rather than staking, our vampires. It is only over the last twenty years, however, that Dracula has begun to receive much serious critical attention. This volume collects the most significant contemporary work on the novel from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including Marxist, Psychoanalytical, Historicist and Feminist giving a unique collection which engages with questions about the psychological and social significance of this highly transgressive and enduringly popular text.>
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; G.Byron
Dracula and Taboo; D.Punter
Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula; P.A.Roth
Dracula and Capitalism; F.Moretti
Hysteric and Obsessional Discourse: Responding to Death in Dracula;E.Bronfen
Writing and Biting in Dracula; R.A.Pope
'Kiss Me with Those Red Lips': Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula; C.Craft
The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization; S.D.Arata
Dracula: A Vampire of Our Own; N.Auerbach
Technologies of Monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula; J.Halberstam
Travels in Romania: Myths of Origins, Myths of Blood; D.Glover
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
GLENNIS BYRON is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling.
GLENNIS BYRON is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling.
