Bram Stoker

Klappentext In part because of the huge success of his novel Dracula , Bram Stoker is largely responsible for moving the gothic out of medieval castles and into the center of modern life, using gothic motifs and conventions to examine social, economic, and political problems. In Bram Stoker , Carol A. Senf offers a detailed and accessible introduction to the entirety of Stoker's oeuvre, focusing on his contributions to the modern notion of the gothic. During his lifetime, Stoker authored seventeen books in addition to Dracula , as well as several short stories, many of which were not classically gothic. Senf's study is the first to pay sustained attention to these, searching out the gothic elements in tales of romance or stories of supernatural mystery. As fascinating as it is significant to Stoker scholarship, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in literature and cultural studies at the fin de siècle . Zusammenfassung This study examines Stoker's contribution to the modern notion of Gothic and demonstrates that Gothic excess is Stoker's way of focusing on social! economic! and political problems. What makes this study unique is that it privileges Stoker's development of modern Gothic in Dracula but also addresses Stoker's works that are decidedly not Gothic.

Info autore

Carol A. Senf is professor in and associate chair of the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carol A. Senf, Carol A Senf
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 15.01.2011
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780708323069
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2306-9
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Serie: Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions; Gothic Authors: Critical Revis; Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions
• Categorie: FICTION / Ghost, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, FICTION / Horror, Stoker, Classic horror & ghost stories, Bram, Horror and supernatural fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature: history and criticism