Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997 - Softcover

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9781550022797: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997

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ISBN 10: 1550022792 ISBN 13: 9781550022797

Publisher: Dundurn Press, 1997

Winner of the 1997 International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Best Non-fiction Book

In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking."

"Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible."

-from the Preface by Patrick McGrath

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A collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars analyzing and celebrating the novel's legacy in popular culture.

About the Author:

Carol Margaret Davison is a widely published poet and book reviewer and a part-time lecturer in Victorian and Gothic literature at Concordia University in Montreal. She is also completing her doctorate in Gothic literature at McGill University in Montreal.

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