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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.


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.


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 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.


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.


Secrecy As Strategy In Dracula, Jean Marigny Jan 2000

Secrecy As Strategy In Dracula, Jean Marigny

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Filming Dracula: Vampires, Genre, And Cinematography, Jörg Waltje Jan 2000

Filming Dracula: Vampires, Genre, And Cinematography, Jörg Waltje

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Separation Granted; Divorce Denied; Annulment Unlikely, Raymond Mcnally Jan 1999

Separation Granted; Divorce Denied; Annulment Unlikely, Raymond Mcnally

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.


Whose Dracula Is It Anyway? Deane, Balderston And The "World Famous Vampire Play", Anne-Marie Finn Jan 1999

Whose Dracula Is It Anyway? Deane, Balderston And The "World Famous Vampire Play", Anne-Marie Finn

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.