Dracula and the Eastern Question British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth-Century Near East
Description
This book sets the writings of Merimee, Le Fanu, Stoker and Verne in the context in which they were written - namely the response to Balkan, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian politics. Gibson analyzes their works to reveal that the vampire acts as an allegory of the Near East through which constitutes a challenge to the 'orientalism' argument of today.
Keywords
FictionLiterary CriticismModern19th CenturyEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceAnthropologyCultural & Social
2006Book
Author(s)Matthew Gibson
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781403994776
LanguageEnglish
