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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker’s Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today’s generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, theatrical, televised and artistic versions. In so doing, it reassesses the origins, evolution, imagery, mythology, theory and criticism of Gothic fiction and of the Gothic (sub)culture. The volume is innovative in that it congregates various angles to the Gothic phenomenon, providing an overview of the interdisciplinary relationships between different cultural, artistic and creative reworkings of the Gothic in general and of Stoker’s legacy in particular.
Trade Review“Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts is an interdisciplinary collection of articles put together by Isabel Ermida that focuses on the development of the vampire figure from its early inception as a literary personage and a representation of the demonic East European Other in the eyes of Victorian society to its ever-evolving symbolism in contemporary fiction, film, and other media. […] the analytical framework and overview of the ever-evolving vampire literature that this collection offers is an important contribution to Gothic (and Dracula) studies as a field, and will be beneficial to scholars, students, and those who have a general interest in the vampire figure or the Gothic genre as a whole” - Svitlana Krys and Andrew Malmquist, MacEwan University, in: H-Russia, H-Net Reviews, October 2016
Table of ContentsGothic Old and New: Introduction Isabel Ermida PART I - Gothic Spaces, or the (De)Colonization of a Genre “The Son of the Vampire”: Greek Gothic, or Gothic Greece? Álvaro García Marín The Old and New Dracula Castle:
The Poienari Fortress in Dracula Sequels and Travel Memoirs Marius-Mircea Crișan Dracula Orientalized Raphaella Delores Gomez Empire, Monsters and Barbarians: Uncanny Echoes and Reconfigurations of Stoker’s Dracula in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians Rogers Asempasah Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: An Antomy of the American Gothic Carlos Azevedo PART II - Multimodal Representations of the Gothic – From the Screen to the Stage and the Arts Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931): The Vampire Wears a Dress Coat Dorota Babilas Aurally Bloodcurdling: Representing Dracula and His Brethren in BBC Radio Drama Leslie McMurtry “Land of Apparitions”: The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic Plays Eva Čoupková Gothic Architecture, Castles and Villains: Transgression, Decay and the Gothic Locus Horribilis Fanny Lacôte PART III - Postmodern Gothic – Identity Transformations of the Vampire Postmodern Gothic: Teen Vampires Joana Passos Vampires “On a Special Diet”: Identity and the Body in Contemporary Media Texts Lea Gerhards Forever Young, Though Forever Changing:
Evolution of the Vampire Maria Antónia Lima Who’s Afraid of Don Juan? Vampirism and Seduction Maria do Carmo Mendes Destroying and Creating Identity: Vampires, Chaos and Society in Angela Carter’s “The Scarlet House” Inês Botelho Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
