Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage

Zusatztext "Bram Stoker! Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage does an admirable job of placing Dracula in conversation with the literary Gothic! supernatural Gothic! and melodramatic drama on offer at Irving's Lyceum Royal Theatre. It also situates the novel in relation to the function of science! literature! and the theatre in "legitimixing brutality" towards women as a means of rehabilitating them." - Victorian Periodicals Review! 2015 Informationen zum Autor Catherine Wynne is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, UK. She is editor of Bram Stoker and the Stage: Reviews, Reminiscences, Essays and Fiction (2012), author of The Colonial Conan Doyle (2002) and co-editor (with Sabine Vanacker) of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: Multi-Media Afterlives (2012). Klappentext Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Zusammenfassung Bram Stoker! Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage! exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Setting the Scene 1. Stoker, Melodrama and the Gothic 2. Irving's Tempters and Stoker's Vanishing Ladies: Supernatural Production, Mesmeric Influence and Magical Illusion 3. Ellen Terry and the 'Bloofer Lady': Femininity and Fallenness 4. Gothic Weddings and Performing Vampires: Geneviève Ward and The Lady of the Shroud 5. The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula Conclusion

Table des matières

Introduction: Setting the Scene 1. Stoker, Melodrama and the Gothic 2. Irving's Tempters and Stoker's Vanishing Ladies: Supernatural Production, Mesmeric Influence and Magical Illusion 3. Ellen Terry and the 'Bloofer Lady': Femininity and Fallenness 4. Gothic Weddings and Performing Vampires: Geneviève Ward and The Lady of the Shroud 5. The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula Conclusion

Commentaire

"Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage does an admirable job of placing Dracula in conversation with the literary Gothic, supernatural Gothic, and melodramatic drama on offer at Irving's Lyceum Royal Theatre. It also situates the novel in relation to the function of science, literature, and the theatre in "legitimixing brutality" towards women as a means of rehabilitating them." - Victorian Periodicals Review, 2015

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: C Wynne, C. Wynne, Catherine Wynne
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349452545
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45254-5
• Pages: 204
• Thèmes: Palgrave Gothic; Palgrave Gothic
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Musique, cinéma, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Théâtre, ballet; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires; Theater, B, Media Studies, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Communication, Fiction, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Theatre and Performance Arts, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Media and Communication Theory, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Fiction Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Film and Television Studies, Screen Studies, Motion pictures and television, fiction;stage;theatre;Victorian era