The Cambridge Companion to Dracula

Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London)

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Cambridge University Press
16 November 2017

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate.

Edited by: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck University of London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9781316607084
ISBN 10: 1316607089
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 16 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Notes on Contributors; Note on the Text; Chronology; Introduction Roger Luckhurst; Part I. Dracula in the Gothic Tradition: 1. Dracula's Pre-History: The Advent of the Vampire Nick Groom; 2. Dracula's Debts to the Gothic Romance William Hughes; 3. Dracula and the Late Victorian Gothic Revival Alex Warwick; Part II. Contexts: 4. Dracula and the Occult Christine Ferguson; 5. Dracula and Psychology Roger Luckhurst; 6. Dracula and Sexology Heike Bauer; 7. Dracula in the Age of Mass Migration David Glover; 8. Dracula and the East Matthew Gibson; 9. Dracula's Blood Anthony Bale; 10. Dracula and Women Carol Senf; Part III. New Directions: 11. Dracula Queered Xavier Aldana Reyes; 12. Dracula and New Horror Theory Mark Blacklock; 13. Transnational Draculas Ken Gelder; Part IV. Adaptations: 14. Dracula on Stage Catherine Wynne; 15. Dracula on Film 1931-1959 Alison Peirse; 16. Dracula on Film and TV, 1960 to present Stacey Abbott; Guide to Further Reading; Index

Roger Luckhurst is Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. His previous publications include The Mummy's Curse: The True Story of a Dark Fantasy (2012) and critical studies of the films The Shining (2013) and Alien (2014). He has also co-editied books including The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880-1900 (2000) and Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (2002). He has edited numerous Gothic classics, including Stevenson's Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde (2006), Bram Stoker's Dracula (2011) ,and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (2017).