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| Title | : | Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (617 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1550022792 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
"Very Entertaining!" according to Bob Gutowski. A lively, clever look at the legacy of Bram Stoker's landmark novel of vampirism (and repressed sexuality) in Victorian times!
Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible."-from the Preface by Patrick McGrath. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the
That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible."-from the Preface by Patrick McGrath. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking.""Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Marga
Carol Margaret Davison is a widely published poet and book reviewer and a part-time lecturer in Victorian and Gothic literature at Concordia University in Montreal. She is also completing her doctorate in Gothic literature at McGill University in Montreal.
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