The Cambridge Companion to Dracula

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

Roger Luckhurst (Edited by)

9781107153172, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 November 2017

240 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.46 kg

Bram Stoker's Dracula is the most famous vampire in literature and film. This new collection of sixteen essays brings together a range of internationally renowned scholars to provide a series of pathways through this celebrated Gothic novel and its innumerable adaptations and translations. The volume illuminates the novel's various pre-histories, critical contexts and subsequent cultural transformations. Chapters explore literary history, Gothic revival scholarship, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sexology, philosophy, occultism, cultural history, critical race theory, theatre and film history, and the place of the vampire in Europe and beyond. These studies provide an accessible guide of cutting-edge scholarship to one of the most celebrated modern Gothic horror stories. This Companion will serve as a key resource for scholars, teachers and students interested in the enduring force of Dracula and the seemingly inexhaustible range of the contexts it requires and readings it might generate.

Notes on Contributors
Note on the Text
Chronology
Introduction Roger Luckhurst
Part I. Dracula in the Gothic Tradition: 1. Dracula's Pre-History: The Advent of the Vampire Nick Groom
2. Dracula's Debts to the Gothic Romance William Hughes
3. Dracula and the Late Victorian Gothic Revival Alex Warwick
Part II. Contexts: 4. Dracula and the Occult Christine Ferguson
5. Dracula and Psychology Roger Luckhurst
6. Dracula and Sexology Heike Bauer
7. Dracula in the Age of Mass Migration David Glover
8. Dracula and the East Matthew Gibson
9. Dracula's Blood Anthony Bale
10. Dracula and Women Carol Senf
Part III. New Directions: 11. Dracula Queered Xavier Aldana Reyes
12. Dracula and New Horror Theory Mark Blacklock
13. Transnational Draculas Ken Gelder
Part IV. Adaptations: 14. Dracula on Stage Catherine Wynne
15. Dracula on Film 1931-1959 Alison Peirse
16. Dracula on Film and TV, 1960 to present Stacey Abbott
Guide to Further Reading
Index

Subject Areas: Classic horror & ghost stories [FKC], Literary companions, book reviews & guides [DSRC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]