The volume offers a new perspective on the complex evolution of the Dracula myth and the Gothic space over centuries focusing on its international character
Includes perspectives on the Dracula myth from experts from seven countries: UK, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Italy, Germany, USA
The book is interdisciplinary and brings together the fields of literature, tourism and film
Presents an authoritative volume, both for scholars and for wide public interested in Dracula and the Gothic

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Dr Marius-Mircea Crian is Associate Professor at the West University of Timioara, Romania. He is the author of The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker's Transylvania (2013) and The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional Representation of the Romanian Space (2013).

Inhalt

1. Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will: Dracula in international contexts - Marius-Mircea Crian.- 2. The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic - William Hughes.- 3. The Discourse of Italy in Nineteenth Century Irish Gothic: Maturin's Fatal Revenge , Le Fanu's exotic tales, and The Castle of Savina - Donatella Abbate Badin.- 4. Bloodthirsty and Remorseless Fangs: Representation of East-Central Europe in Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short stories - Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Marius-Mircea Crian.- 5. Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany - Sam George.- 6. Count Dracula's Lifetime Identity and Address - Hans Corneel de Roos.- 7. Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London - Clive Bloom.- 8. Tourism and Travel in BramStoker's Dracula - Duncan Light.- 9. Castle Hunedoara and the Dracula Myth: Connection or Speculation? - Marius-Mircea Crian.- 10. Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations - Kristin L. Bone.- 11. In Search of Dracula's Oracular History - John Edgar Browning.- 12. Vampiric Emotion and Identity in Dracula and Interview with the Vampire - Nancy Schumann.- 13. Gothic and Horror in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact - Magdalena Grabias.- 14. Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values? - Dorota Babilas.- 15. The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles - Carol Senf.