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Bram Stoker is best remembered today as the author of Dracula. However, this Dublin-born Anglo-Irishman combined a writing career which produced eleven novels and a wealth of short stories, biography and journalism, with a full-time occupation as a theatre manager and society figure in fin de siecle London. This volume testifies to the breadth and diversity of Stoker's writings and interests, and reassesses the significant contribution which the author made to the Gothic tradition. Its Introduction analyses the reasons behind Stoker's exclusion from the literary canon through an exploration of the changes in critical and cultural studies in the late twentieth century. The twelve critical essays which follow, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, demonstrate a variety of critical approaches to Stoker and to the ideas and problems presented by his writings before and after Dracula.
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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Bram Stoker, the Gothic and the Development of Cultural Studies
W. Hughes & A. Smith 'Powers Old and New': Stoker's Alliances with Anglo-Irish Gothic
A. Milbank Fables of Continuity: Bram Stoker and Medievalism
C.C. Simmons Vampiric Arts: Stoker's Defense of Poetry
M. Kilgour Sex, History and the Vampire
R. Mighall Dracula and the Doctors: Bad Blood, Menstrual Taboo and the New Woman
M. Mulvey-Roberts The Alien and the Familiar in The Jewel of Seven Stars and Dracula
R. Edwards Exchanging Fantasies: Sex and the Serbian Crisis in The Lady of the Shroud
V. Sage Crowning the King, Mourning his Mother: The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lady of the Shroud
L. Hopkins A Crucial Stage in the Writing of Dracula
J.S. Bierman Echoes in the Animal House
The Lair of the White Worm
D. Punter Eruptions of the Primitive into the Present: The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm
D. Seed Stoker's Counterfeit Gothic: Dracula and Theatricality at the Dawn of Simulation
J.E. Hogle Index
