Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
|
Buy Now
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals - Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (Paperback, New)
Loot Price: R712
Discovery Miles 7 120
|
|
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals - Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (Paperback, New)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still
one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print
and continually adapted for stage and screen. Paradoxically, David
Glover suggests, this very success has obscured the historical
conditions and authorial circumstances of the novel's production.
By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories,
essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker, Vampires,
Mummies, and Liberals reconstructs the cultural and political world
that gave birth to Dracula. To bring Stoker's life into productive
relationship with his writing, Glover offers a reading that locates
the author within the changing commercial contours of the
late-Victorian public sphere and in which the methods of critical
biography are displaced by those of cultural studies. Glover's
efforts reveal a writer who was more wide-ranging and politically
engaged than his current reputation suggests. An Irish Protestant
and nationalist, Stoker nonetheless drew his political inspiration
from English liberalism at a time of impending crisis, and the
tradition's contradictions and uncertainties haunt his work. At the
heart of Stoker's writing Glover exposes a preoccupation with those
sciences and pseudo-sciences-from physiognomy and phrenology to
eugenics and sexology-that seemed to cast doubt on the liberal
faith in progress. He argues that Dracula should be read as a text
torn between the stances of the colonizer and the colonized, unable
to accept or reject the racialized images of backwardness that
dogged debates about Irish nationhood. As it tracks the
phantasmatic form given to questions of character and
individuality, race and production, sexuality and gender, across
the body of Stoker's writing, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals draws
a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary transitional figure.
Combining psychoanalysis and cultural theory with detailed
historical research, this book will be of interest to scholars of
Victorian and Irish fiction and to those concerned with cultural
studies and popular culture.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.