Dracula and the Eastern Question

British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth-Century Near East
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-349-54441-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

This book sets the writings of Merimee, Le Fanu, Stoker and Verne in the context in which they were written - namely the response to Balkan, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian politics. Gibson analyzes their works to reveal that the vampire acts as an allegory of the Near East through which constitutes a challenge to the 'orientalism' argument of today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps Acknowledgements Note on Translations Introduction Polidori's The Vampyre and the Dangers of Philhellenism to Italian Liberation J.Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and the Austro-Hungarian 'Ausgleich' (1878) Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Treaty of Berlin (1878) Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud and the Bosnia Crisis (1908-9) The Vampires of Illyria: Nodier, Mérimée and the French Occupation of the Dalmation Coast Jules Verne's Le Chateau des Carpathes (1892) and the Romans of Transylvania Conclusion Appendix: Translations from Mérimée's La Guzla Notes Short Chronology of Relevant Events Bibiliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MATTHEW GIBSON worked for several years in Poland and Bulgaria, where he lectured in English and Irish Literature at various universities. He is a well known Yeats scholar, being the author of (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), but his interest in the Balkans has led him to investigate the vampire novels which form the object of this study.