Dracula Studies
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*A long overdue study of the social, political and cultural context of Bram Stoker’s Dracula * A welcome addition to Dracula studies, using British and Romanian sources * A postcolonial look at Dracula * The book argues that Stoker was at... more
The discussion about Bram Stoker's possible contribution to Mörkrets makter, the Swedish version of Dracula, and about the identity of the anonymous Swedish editor/translator, has reached no definitive conclusions yet. This paper... more
The identification of deviant burials as those of ‘vampires’ is a feature of excavated skeletons from sites across Eastern, Central and Southern Europe as well as the Balkans. Based on a close reading of historic and folkloric sources... more
In this comparative study of Angela Carter's " The Lady of the House of Love " (1979) and Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) eating habits, relation to the domestic and to (ir)rationality are examined in the female and... more
En el presente trabajo se van a estudiar la figura del vampiro en la literatura previa a la obra de Bram Stoker, Drácula. Posteriormente, se hará una comparación entre la obra culmen de la literatura vampírica y su adaptación teatral,... more
From the preface of this E-book(53 pages A4, c. 24.500 words): "This text is largely based on my manuscript “Professor Abraham van Helsing: A Psychiatrist from Amsterdam? Hypnotism, Telepathy, Spiritualism and Magic in the Victorian... more
There is a common misconception that the early critical reception of Bram Stoker’s famed vampire novel, Dracula (1897), was “mixed.” This reference book, as the present introduction lays out, sets out to dispel this myth en force by... more
This paper analyses Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula as a literary document which reflects important scientific and technological developments of the fin-the-siècle era, ranging from blood transfusion and virology via psychotherapy and... more
O presente artigo tem como objetivo traçar uma breve arqueologia das incursões do personagem “Drácula”, criado por Bram Stoker, no livro de 1897 do mesmo nome, no cinema. Embora a obra de Stoker seja um grande marco da literatura gótica... more
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is directed by Francis Ford Coppola one of the best American directors. Film includes many good techniquez and an amazing story but just I want to speak about shadows in this film.
Using (and to some extent, “abusing”) Jacques Derrida’s concept of “decontextualisation” (and “recontextualisation”), the broadest interest of my paper is the deliberate (and critical) decontextualisation of stereotypes through... more
Michaela Wünsch "Von Vampiren und anderen Degenerierten. Dracula im Kontext moderner Entartungsdiskurse", in: Julia Bertschick/Christa Tuczay (Hg.): Poetische Wiedergänger. Deutschsprachige Vampirismus-Diskurse vom Mittelalter bis zur... more
From the introduction: "Almost five years after the Swedish texts were brought to the attention of international academic circles and fans of Gothic fiction, content and style of Mörkrets Makter have hardly been analyzed in their own... more
The discussion about Bram Stoker’s possible contribution to Morkrets makter, the Swedish version of Dracula, and about the identity of the anonymous Swedish editor/translator, has reached no definitive conclusions yet. This paper... more
This paper identifies English and American periodicals where Bram Stoker published some of his short stories prior to their appearance in "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories."
The curse of God pronounced on your sex weighs still on the world. Guilty you must bear its hardships. You are the devil's gateway, you desecrated the fatal tree, you first betrayed the Law of God, you softened up with your cajoling... more
The construction of European identity, as Iver B. Neumann (1999) suggests, was strongly linked to the threat of the Ottoman Turk who was commonly referred as the “barbarians” by European Christians. In fact, from the late-eighteenth... more
This paper was written with the aim of answering some of the questions concerning the original publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
O presente artigo tem como objetivo uma análise geral do século XIX como momento de mudanças que acabariam por ser definitivas e definidoras da sociedade atual, que a partir da revolução dual, Industrial e Francesa, seria indissolúvel.... more