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The Children Of The Night: Stoker's Dreadful Reading And The Plot Of Dracula, Dick Collins Jan 2006

The Children Of The Night: Stoker's Dreadful Reading And The Plot Of Dracula, Dick Collins

Journal of Dracula Studies

My intention is to suggest that the plot of Dracula was modeled on the plot of The String of Pearls, the Penny Dreadful serial that created Sweeney Todd. I am not suggesting that Stoker deliberately or consciously “stole” the plot and “rewrote it” with “differences”; nor can I prove he had read it, let alone that he had it on the desk as he wrote. Instead I am making the altogether more ordinary claim that Stoker was familiar with the earlier book, and others like it; that the memory of it provided him with a basic framework of plot; and …


Punishment With Vlad Tepes - Punishments In Europe Common And Differentiating Traits, Constantin Rezachevici Jan 2006

Punishment With Vlad Tepes - Punishments In Europe Common And Differentiating Traits, Constantin Rezachevici

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


"The Coin Of Our Realm": Blood And Images In Dracula 2000, Alan S. Ambrisco, Lance Svehla Jan 2006

"The Coin Of Our Realm": Blood And Images In Dracula 2000, Alan S. Ambrisco, Lance Svehla

Journal of Dracula Studies

Since the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the vampire has always been our long lost twin, always held our gaze because we found ourselves translated there. Whether represented as demonized monopolist, stereotyped Jew, feudal aristocrat, or iconoclastic youth,1 what remains in all manifestations of the vampire is its ability to become what the culture both desires and reviles, to seduce in the act of producing fear. Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, a film directed by Patrick Lussier, portrays the notorious vampire reveling in a world not only of blood but also of images. This rewriting of Dracula’s legend engages anxieties …


Triply Filiated: Lestat And The Three Fathers, Maureen C. Laperriere Jan 2006

Triply Filiated: Lestat And The Three Fathers, Maureen C. Laperriere

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


The Cultural-Historical Origins Of The Literary Vampire In Germany, Heidi Crawford Jan 2005

The Cultural-Historical Origins Of The Literary Vampire In Germany, Heidi Crawford

Journal of Dracula Studies

Before British authors began writing vampire literature, culminating in 1897 with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, eighteenth-century German poets, most significantly Heinrich August Ossenfelder, Gottfried August Bürger, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, had begun to adapt the curious phenomenon of vampirism from Central Europe for the creative literature they were producing in the enlightened West. Possibly the most striking observation about the origins of the vampire figure in German poetry is that the German poets seem to have drawn more on Central European than German folklore. The reason for this is that the literary vampire was introduced into eighteenth-century German ballad poetry …


The People Of Bram Stoker's Transylvania, Duncan Light Jan 2005

The People Of Bram Stoker's Transylvania, Duncan Light

Journal of Dracula Studies

One of the defining features of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the “specific and detailed geographical context that sets this novel apart from other gothic novels” (Florescu & McNally 5). Indeed, although Stoker had not visited Transylvania, he is known to have read widely in preparing Dracula.1 While his historical research has come under particular scrutiny, little attention has been paid to his representation and understanding of the region’s geography.2 As a human geographer with research interests in Romania, I find that there is something not “quite right” about Stoker’s Transylvania. In particular, where are the Romanians? And why are there …


Echoes Of Dracula: Racial Politics And The Failure Of Segregated Spaces In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend., Kathy Davis Patterson Jan 2005

Echoes Of Dracula: Racial Politics And The Failure Of Segregated Spaces In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend., Kathy Davis Patterson

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


"Betwixt Sunset And Sunrise": Liminality In Dracula, Mark M. Hennelly Jr. Jan 2005

"Betwixt Sunset And Sunrise": Liminality In Dracula, Mark M. Hennelly Jr.

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Dracula And The Afterlife: A Psychological Explanation, Jack D. Maser Jan 2005

Dracula And The Afterlife: A Psychological Explanation, Jack D. Maser

Journal of Dracula Studies

Until relatively recently, the primary psychological approach to understanding Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the folklore of vampires has been psychoanalysis. Maurice Richardson asserted in 1956 that Dracula must be seen from a Freudian standpoint, since “from no other does the story really make any sense” (427). However, the psychoanalytic approach shares little with modern, scientifically based psychology. Fascinating though it may be, psychoanalytic theory has almost no measurable attributes and may itself be as mythical as vampires and an afterlife. Rather, psychoanalysis is a creative theory of human cognition and behavior that can be neither proven false, objectively replicated, nor …


A Clutch Of Vampires: Or, An Examination Of The Contemporary Dracula Texts, James Craig Holte Jan 2004

A Clutch Of Vampires: Or, An Examination Of The Contemporary Dracula Texts, James Craig Holte

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


From Undead Monster To Sexy Seducer: Physical Sex Appeal In Contemporary Dracula Films, Donald Rottenbucher Jan 2004

From Undead Monster To Sexy Seducer: Physical Sex Appeal In Contemporary Dracula Films, Donald Rottenbucher

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Demonizing The Emerging Woman: Misrepresented Morality In Dracula And God's Little Acre, Ashley Craig Lancaster Jan 2004

Demonizing The Emerging Woman: Misrepresented Morality In Dracula And God's Little Acre, Ashley Craig Lancaster

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Vampirism And The Degeneration Of The Imperial Race - Stoker's Dracula As The Invasive Degenerate Other, Monika Tomaszweska Jan 2004

Vampirism And The Degeneration Of The Imperial Race - Stoker's Dracula As The Invasive Degenerate Other, Monika Tomaszweska

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Keeping The Faith: Catholicism In Dracula And Its Adaptations, D. Bruno Starrs Jan 2004

Keeping The Faith: Catholicism In Dracula And Its Adaptations, D. Bruno Starrs

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Sex, Blood And (Un)Death: The Queer Vampire And Hiv, Carlen Lavigne Jan 2004

Sex, Blood And (Un)Death: The Queer Vampire And Hiv, Carlen Lavigne

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Dracula In The Comics, Perry Lake Jan 2003

Dracula In The Comics, Perry Lake

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


It's All In The Blood: The Bram Stoker/Peter Cushing Alliance, Michael Mcglasson Jan 2003

It's All In The Blood: The Bram Stoker/Peter Cushing Alliance, Michael Mcglasson

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


"A Race Of Devils": Frankenstein, Dracula And Science Fiction, Robert James Frost Jan 2003

"A Race Of Devils": Frankenstein, Dracula And Science Fiction, Robert James Frost

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


The Journey Of The Damned Coffin, Jordi Ardanuy, Luis Romero Jan 2003

The Journey Of The Damned Coffin, Jordi Ardanuy, Luis Romero

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


The Post-Feminist Vampire: A Heroine For The Twenty-First Century, Victoria Amador Jan 2003

The Post-Feminist Vampire: A Heroine For The Twenty-First Century, Victoria Amador

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


The Dragon The Raven And The Ring, Michael Vorsino Jan 2003

The Dragon The Raven And The Ring, Michael Vorsino

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Michel Beheim, German Meistergesang, And Dracula, David B. Dickens, Elizabeth Miller Jan 2003

Michel Beheim, German Meistergesang, And Dracula, David B. Dickens, Elizabeth Miller

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Root Canals: The Neutered Vampire And The Metamorphosis Of Undead Metaphor, Chris Mcgunnigle Jan 2002

Root Canals: The Neutered Vampire And The Metamorphosis Of Undead Metaphor, Chris Mcgunnigle

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


"Unconscious Cerebration" And The Happy Ending Of Dracula, John Greenway Jan 2002

"Unconscious Cerebration" And The Happy Ending Of Dracula, John Greenway

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


The Tomb Of Vlad Tepes, Constantin Rezachevici Jan 2002

The Tomb Of Vlad Tepes, Constantin Rezachevici

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Imitations Of Immortality: "Shadow Of The Vampire", James Craig Holte Jan 2002

Imitations Of Immortality: "Shadow Of The Vampire", James Craig Holte

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Repulsive Pariah Or Romantic Prince? Transforming Monstrosity In Bram Stoker's And Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Vrunda Stampwala Sahay Jan 2002

Repulsive Pariah Or Romantic Prince? Transforming Monstrosity In Bram Stoker's And Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Vrunda Stampwala Sahay

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Xenophobia And Its Subversion In Darker Than You Think, Margaret L. Carter Jan 2002

Xenophobia And Its Subversion In Darker Than You Think, Margaret L. Carter

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Revampings Of Dracula In Contemporary Fiction, Margaret L. Carter Jan 2001

Revampings Of Dracula In Contemporary Fiction, Margaret L. Carter

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Once Upon The Sleeping Canon: Literary Lustre In Cradle Of Filth's Wintry Romances, Julio Angel Olivares Merino Jan 2001

Once Upon The Sleeping Canon: Literary Lustre In Cradle Of Filth's Wintry Romances, Julio Angel Olivares Merino

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.