M. Gibson

Broschiertes Buch

Dracula and the Eastern Question

British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth-Century Near East

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

MATTHEW GIBSON worked for several years in Poland and Bulgaria, where he lectured in English and Irish Literature at various universities. He is a well known Yeats scholar, being the author of Yeats, Coleridge and The Romantic Sage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), but his interest in the Balkans has led him to investigate the vampire novels which form the object of this study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-54441-7
• 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781349544417
• ISBN-10: 1349544418
• Artikelnr.: 45082670