| Bram Stoker: Centenary Essays Contributor(s): Killeen, Jarlath (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1846824079 ISBN-13: 9781846824074 Publisher: Four Courts Press OUR PRICE: $73.76 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite his vampire creation, Dracula, being world-famous, and in spite of a host of academic studies of the novel in which this vampire first appeared, Bram Stoker himself remains a figure shrouded in darkness, and his other writings are virtually unknown and ignored. This collection addresses this large gap. The main aim of the collection is to read Stoker in the round, expanding the critical focus away from an exclusive obsession with Dracula and taking account of the full extent of Stoker's writing, from his other Gothic novels, The Lair of the White Worm and The Snake's Pass, to his short stories and journalism, and his romances Miss Betty, Lady Athlyne, and The Shoulder of Shasta. Where Dracula is considered, new scholarship is presented by the leading experts on that novel. The collection assesses Stoker's relationship to late 19th-century Ireland and especially Dublin, and addresses his status as an 'Irish' writer of substance. Subject: Literary Criticism, History, Victorian Studies] |