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Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander
Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander
Journal of Dracula Studies
When Jonathan Harker first describes Castle Dracula, his journals rely on the language of war. Unable to pin down the castle’s site on an Ordnance Map, Harker is able to see instead the liminal city of Bistritz in terms of a historic siege (11). As he approaches nearer, Harker relates a companion’s (mis)quotation from Burger’s “Lenore,” a line spoken by an undead soldier, all too recently at war (17). Castle Dracula itself appears textually as a mix of military and Gothic discourses, whose “frowning walls and dark window openings” (21) serve both to situate Harker in classically Gothic space, and …
Desire And Loathing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nancy F. Rosenberg
Desire And Loathing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nancy F. Rosenberg
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Filming Dracula: Vampires, Genre, And Cinematography, Jörg Waltje
Filming Dracula: Vampires, Genre, And Cinematography, Jörg Waltje
Journal of Dracula Studies
No abstract provided.
Vampire Crime, Katherine Ramsland
Vampire Crime, Katherine Ramsland
Journal of Dracula Studies
While most of the vampire subculture these days is a benign form of role-playing, there have been cases of people who were inspired by the predatory image to kill. To their minds, the vampire mythos provides a framework that inspires and even licenses certain types of violent behaviors. Although this bloodthirsty impulse reaches back centuries and crosses cultures, I want to examine the mythology’s influence on three cases in recent American culture: Roderick Ferrell, James Riva, and Richard Trenton Chase. I will take one case at a time and then discuss how they attach to the vampire frame.