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Tag Archives: Dracula
Roger Luckhurst, ‘The birth of the vampyre: Dracula and mythology in Early Modern Europe’
An extract here from Roger Luckhurst’s excellent introduction to the OUP World’s Classics edition of Dracula. The notion that the vampire is universal and archetypal is debunked, and its origins shown to lie in the Enlightenment response to folkloric panics … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Bram Stoker, Calmet, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Folklore, Marx, Vampires, Voltaire
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Roger Luckhurst, ‘From Dracula to The Strain: Where do vampires come from?’
A brilliant, concise overview of the origins of contemporary vampire narratives by Prof, Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, London. He traces the vampire story from the Eats European accounts in the eighteenth-century through Polidori, Varney the Vampire, ‘Carmilla’ and (inevitably) … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Carmilla, del Torro, Dracula, Eighteenth century, John Polidori, race, TV, Vampires, Varney the Vampire
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Dracula’s Transylvania, the Land Beyond the Forest
‘We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England, our ways are not your ways and there shall be to you many strange things’ (Bram Stoker) I was beyond excited to find myself in Transylvania recently, fully expecting a gothic … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Critical thoughts, Reviews
Tagged Dracula, Werewolves, Wolves
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Dracula Quiz
The Gothic scholar Roger Lockhurst has set a quiz here to test your knowledge of Dracula. I made s a silly mistake and only got 9/10!
Vatican Wants Exorcisms for Teens Who Love Vampires
Thanks to Dr Beyer for forwarding the link to The Independent which today claimed that Exorcists Warn Vatican over Beautiful Young Vampires Perhaps Pope Francis would like to borrow our vampire slaying kit complete with crucifix bible and holy water. … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Catholicism, Dracula, religion, Twilight, Vampires
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Barry Forshaw ‘Sex and Death: Vampires from Coleridge to Hammer’
Instructive extract from Barry Forshaw’s British Gothic Cinema on the vampire theme in Gothic fiction from Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ through ‘Carmilla’ and dracula to its incarnation in cinema.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Carmilla, Coleridge, Dracula, Film, Gothic novel, Hammer horror, Romanticism, sexuality, Vampires
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Call for Articles: Journal of Dracula Studies
Stoker-, Dracula-, and vampire-related articles sought for the Journal of Dracula Studies: We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Bram Stoker, Call for articles, Dracula, Film, Folklore, Gothic, popular culture, Vampires
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Review of Mark Bruce’s ‘Dracula’
At the end of November, I treated myself and a friend to a performance of Mark Bruce’s Dracula. It is a sign of the how good the reviews had been that I was willing to trek from South-West London to North-East London to … Continue reading
Greg Buzwell, ‘Bram Stoker’s stage adaptation of Dracula’
Another useful article from the BL’s excellent series. This might be useful for OGOM MA researchers as well as those concerned with the transmutation of the vampire through various media: To coincide with the British Library’s current major exhibition, Terror … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts, Resources
Tagged adaptation, Bram Stoker, Dracula, theatre, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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Gail Turley Houston, ‘From Dickens to Dracula’
A thoughtful short essay on Dracula and the presence of the Gothic mode in Victorian fiction generally.
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Dickens, Dracula, The Brontës, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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