Dracula: An International Perspective

285 Pages·2017·3.358 MB·English

by  Marius-Mircea Crișan (eds.)

DRACULA
An International Perspective
Edited by
Marius-Mircea Crisan
Palgrave Gothic
Series Editor
Clive Bloom
Middlesex University
London, UK
“With Dracula now recognized as the literary classic it is, Dracula: An
International Perspective assembles an entourage of this generation’s very best
Dracula scholars to open new avenues of research in Stoker’s expansive Gothic
environment. Editor Marius-Mircea Crișan insightfully ties together his col-
leagues’ wide-ranging discoveries of the vampire Count’s footprints in the lands
of his unexpected origins and his travels.”
—J. Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious
History at Baylor University, USA
This series of gothic books is the first to treat the genre in its many inter-
related, global and ‘extended’ cultural aspects to show how the taste for
the medieval and the sublime gave rise to a perverse taste for terror and
horror and how that taste became, not only international (with a huge
fan base in places such as South Korea and Japan) but also the sensibility
of the modern age, changing our attitudes to such diverse areas as the
nature of the artist, the meaning of drug abuse and the concept of the
self. The series is accessible but scholarly, with referencing kept to a mini-
mum and theory contextualised where possible. All the books are reada-
ble by an intelligent student or a knowledgeable general reader interested
in the subject.
Editorial Advisory Board
Dr Ian Conrich, University of South Australia
Barry Forshaw, author/journalist, UK
Professor Gregg Kucich, University of Notre Dame, USA
Professor Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, UK
Dr Catherine Wynne, University of Hull, UK
Dr Alison Peirse, University of Yorkshire, UK
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Professor William Hughes, Bath Spa University, UK
More information about this series at
http://www.springer.com/series/14698
Marius-Mircea Crişan
Editor
Dracula
An International Perspective
Editor
Marius-Mircea Crişan
West University of Timişoara
Timişoara, Romania
Palgrave Gothic
ISBN 978-3-319-63365-7 ISBN 978-3-319-63366-4 (eBook)
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C
ontents
“Welcome to My House! Enter Freely and of Your Own Free
Will”: Dracula in International Contexts 1
Marius-Mircea Crişan
The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the
Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic 21
William Hughes
The Discourse of Italy in Nineteenth Century Irish Gothic:
Maturin’s Fatal Revenge, Le Fanu’s Exotic Tales, and The
Castle of Savina 39
Donatella Abbate Badin
“Bloodthirsty and Remorseless Fangs”: Representation of
East-Central Europe in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Short
Stories 53
Lucian-Vasile Szabo and Marius-Mircea Crişan
Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the
Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula
Myth in Britain and Germany 69
Sam George
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vi CONTENTS
Count Dracula’s Address and Lifetime Identity 95
Hans Corneel de Roos
Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London 119
Clive Bloom
Tourism and Travel in Bram Stoker’s Dracula 139
Duncan Light
Castle Hunedoara and the Dracula Myth: Connection or
Speculation? 157
Marius-Mircea Crişan
Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories
upon Associated Locations 179
Kristin L. Bone
In Search of Dracula’s Oracular History 195
John Edgar Browning
Vampiric Emotion and Identity in Dracula and Interview with
the Vampire 213
Nancy Schumann
Gothic and Horror in Contemporary Cinema and Television:
Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact 227
Magdalena Grabias
Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values? 243
Dorota Babilas
The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban
Jungles 259
Carol Senf
Index 275
C
ontributors
Donatella Abbate Badin formerly of the University of Turin in Italy,
where she taught for twenty years, is the author of numerous scholarly
essays and books in the fields of nineteenth and twentieth century English
and Irish studies, focusing especially on poetry, travel writing and the rep-
resentations of Italy in English and Irish literatures. She has published
extensively on G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Kinsella, Dickens, Thomas Moore,
Sean O’Faolain, travel literature, the Irish Gothic and women writers with
a particular attention on Lady Morgan and her travelogue Italy.
Dorota Babilas, dr hab. works at the Institute of English Studies at the
University of Warsaw, Poland. Her academic interests include Victorian,
Gothic, and Film Studies. Author of i.a. a Ph.D. on the literary status of
The Phantom of the Opera and a monographic book on the cultural after-
life of Queen Victoria (Warsaw 2012).
Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at
Middlesex University, Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University USA,
best-selling author and publisher. He was the historical consultant to the
BBC on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. Professor Bloom is
an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The
Guardian, The independent, The Irish Times, etc. His numerous books
include Restless Revolutionaries, Rebels and Revolts, Bestsellers: Popular
Fiction Since 1900, Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Cult
Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror, all of
which have enjoyed international recognition.
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viii CONTRIBUTORS
Kristin L. Bone (Independent Researcher, USA) has a master’s degree
in modern literary cultures and is a bestselling author of dark fantasy.
Her works include the bestselling Black Rose Guard dark fantasy series.
The Rise of the Temple Gods fantasy series. The academic paper, “Tragic
Monsters and Heroic Villains: Anne Rice’s Contribution to the Rise
of the Heroic Vampire” published in Concerning Evil and was editor
of Leave the Lights On: Literary and Other Monsters. She recently pre-
sented papers at conferences for the Gothic Association of New Zealand
and Australia, the American Literature Association and the Anne Rice
Undead Conference.
John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is Marion L. Brittain
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has
contracted or published over 14 academic and popular trade books and
over 65 shorter works on subjects that cluster around Dracula, vam-
pires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic. In the
past, he has also been invited to appear as an academic vampire scholar
on National Geographic’s Taboo USA (2013–) and Discovery Channel’s
William Shatne’s Weird or What? (2010–).
Marius-Mircea Crişan (Ph.D. 2008 University of Turin) is Associate
Professor at the West University of Timişoara. Author of two books
on the Dracula myth (The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker’s
Transylvania and The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional
Representation of the Romanian Space) and several studies, he has
also published, edited and co-authored books on Didactics (Syntheses
of Didactics of Romanian language and literature) and Imagology
(co-author of An Imagological Dictionary of the Cities in Romania
Represented in British Travel Literature), and organised international
conferences on education and fantastic literature. For more information
see http://www.themythoftransylvania.ro/home_en.htm.
Hans Corneel de Roos is an independent researcher from Holland.
He studied Political and Social Sciences in Amsterdam and Berlin, was
Acting Editor of the official news bulletin of the Transylvanian Society of
Dracula (2013–2016), initiated and organised the Fourth World Dracula
Congress in Dublin, October 2016, and is the author of The Ultimate
Dracula (2012) and Powers of Darkness (2017). He also is the initiator
of a planned series of bi-annual international Dracula congress in Brasov,
Romania. From 1986 till 2017, he lived and worked in Munich; from
2017 on, he will be based on Bantayan Island, Philippines.
CONTRIBUTORS ix
Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of
Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is the Convenor of the ‘Open Graves,
Open Minds’ research centre and a frequent commentator in the inter-
national press. She has published widely on literature and science in
journals and co-edited a special issue of Gothic Studies on vampires 15.2
(2013). Her books include Botany, Sexuality and Women’s Writing
1760–1830 (Manchester University Press, 2007); Representations of
Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day
(Manchester University Press, 2013); Company of Wolves: Werewolves,
Wolves, and Wild Children – Narratives of Sociality and Animality (forth-
coming 2017).
Magdalena Grabias is an Assistant Professor at the Department of
Cultural Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin,
Poland. She specialises in film studies, American studies, Gothic stud-
ies, literary translation and music journalism. Her academic publica-
tions include numerous articles in Polish and English propagating film,
music and theatre viewed from the perspective of philosophy, semiotics,
anthropology and popular culture. Her book “Songs of Innocence and
Experience: Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra” was published in
the UK in 2013.
William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic
Literature at Bath Spa University. His publications include That Devil’s
Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination (2015); The
Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature (2013); Dracula: A Reader’s
Guide to Essential Criticism (2009); Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s
Fiction and its Cultural Context (2000) and student editions of Dracula
(2007) and The Lady of the Shroud (2001). With Andrew Smith he has
co-edited several collections including Ecogothic (2013); The Victorian
Gothic (2012), Queering the Gothic (2009), and Empire and the Gothic
(2003). He is immediate Past President of the International Gothic
Association.
Duncan Light is senior lecturer in tourism at Bournemouth University,
UK. He has research interests in the politics of tourism and for more
than a decade has been researching Romania’s response to “Dracula
tourism” (in both communist and postcommunist contexts). He is
author of The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in
Romania (Ashgate 2012).