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DRACULA An International Perspective Edited by Marius-Mircea Crisan Palgrave Gothic Series Editor Clive Bloom Middlesex University London, UK “With Dracula now recognized as the literary classic it is, Dracula: An International Perspective assembles an entourage of this generation’s very best Dracula scholars to open new avenues of research in Stoker’s expansive Gothic environment. Editor Marius-Mircea Crișan insightfully ties together his col- leagues’ wide-ranging discoveries of the vampire Count’s footprints in the lands of his unexpected origins and his travels.” —J. Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University, USA This series of gothic books is the frst to treat the genre in its many inter- related, global and ‘extended’ cultural aspects to show how the taste for the medieval and the sublime gave rise to a perverse taste for terror and horror and how that taste became, not only international (with a huge fan base in places such as South Korea and Japan) but also the sensibility of the modern age, changing our attitudes to such diverse areas as the nature of the artist, the meaning of drug abuse and the concept of the self. The series is accessible but scholarly, with referencing kept to a mini- mum and theory contextualised where possible. All the books are reada- ble by an intelligent student or a knowledgeable general reader interested in the subject. Editorial Advisory Board Dr Ian Conrich, University of South Australia Barry Forshaw, author/journalist, UK Professor Gregg Kucich, University of Notre Dame, USA Professor Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, UK Dr Catherine Wynne, University of Hull, UK Dr Alison Peirse, University of Yorkshire, UK Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Professor William Hughes, Bath Spa University, UK More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14698 Marius-Mircea Crişan Editor Dracula An International Perspective Editor Marius-Mircea Crişan West University of Timişoara Timişoara, Romania Palgrave Gothic ISBN 978-3-319-63365-7 ISBN 978-3-319-63366-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-63366-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017947720 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifcally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microflms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifc statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affliations. Cover credit: AurelianGogonea/Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland CONTENTS “Welcome to My House! Enter Freely and of Your Own Free Will”: Dracula in International Contexts 1 Marius-Mircea Crişan The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic 21 William Hughes The Discourse of Italy in Nineteenth Century Irish Gothic: Maturin’s Fatal Revenge, Le Fanu’s Exotic Tales, and The Castle of Savina 39 Donatella Abbate Badin “Bloodthirsty and Remorseless Fangs”: Representation of East-Central Europe in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Short Stories 53 Lucian-Vasile Szabo and Marius-Mircea Crişan Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany 69 Sam George v vi CONTENTS Count Dracula’s Address and Lifetime Identity 95 Hans Corneel de Roos Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London 119 Clive Bloom Tourism and Travel in Bram Stoker’s Dracula 139 Duncan Light Castle Hunedoara and the Dracula Myth: Connection or Speculation? 157 Marius-Mircea Crişan Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations 179 Kristin L. Bone In Search of Dracula’s Oracular History 195 John Edgar Browning Vampiric Emotion and Identity in Dracula and Interview with the Vampire 213 Nancy Schumann Gothic and Horror in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact 227 Magdalena Grabias Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values? 243 Dorota Babilas The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles 259 Carol Senf Index 275 CONTRIBUTORS Donatella Abbate Badin formerly of the University of Turin in Italy, where she taught for twenty years, is the author of numerous scholarly essays and books in the felds of nineteenth and twentieth century English and Irish studies, focusing especially on poetry, travel writing and the rep- resentations of Italy in English and Irish literatures. She has published extensively on G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Kinsella, Dickens, Thomas Moore, Sean O’Faolain, travel literature, the Irish Gothic and women writers with a particular attention on Lady Morgan and her travelogue Italy. Dorota Babilas, dr hab. works at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her academic interests include Victorian, Gothic, and Film Studies. Author of i.a. a Ph.D. on the literary status of The Phantom of the Opera and a monographic book on the cultural after- life of Queen Victoria (Warsaw 2012). Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University USA, best-selling author and publisher. He was the historical consultant to the BBC on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. Professor Bloom is an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The independent, The Irish Times, etc. His numerous books include Restless Revolutionaries, Rebels and Revolts, Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900, Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror, all of which have enjoyed international recognition. vii viii CONTRIBUTORS Kristin L. Bone (Independent Researcher, USA) has a master’s degree in modern literary cultures and is a bestselling author of dark fantasy. Her works include the bestselling Black Rose Guard dark fantasy series. The Rise of the Temple Gods fantasy series. The academic paper, “Tragic Monsters and Heroic Villains: Anne Rice’s Contribution to the Rise of the Heroic Vampire” published in Concerning Evil and was editor of Leave the Lights On: Literary and Other Monsters. She recently pre- sented papers at conferences for the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, the American Literature Association and the Anne Rice Undead Conference. John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) is Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has contracted or published over 14 academic and popular trade books and over 65 shorter works on subjects that cluster around Dracula, vam- pires, zombies, horror, monstrosity, Bram Stoker, and the Gothic. In the past, he has also been invited to appear as an academic vampire scholar on National Geographic’s Taboo USA (2013–) and Discovery Channel’s William Shatne’s Weird or What? (2010–). Marius-Mircea Crişan (Ph.D. 2008 University of Turin) is Associate Professor at the West University of Timişoara. Author of two books on the Dracula myth (The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker’s Transylvania and The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional Representation of the Romanian Space) and several studies, he has also published, edited and co-authored books on Didactics (Syntheses of Didactics of Romanian language and literature) and Imagology (co-author of An Imagological Dictionary of the Cities in Romania Represented in British Travel Literature), and organised international conferences on education and fantastic literature. For more information see http://www.themythoftransylvania.ro/home_en.htm. Hans Corneel de Roos is an independent researcher from Holland. He studied Political and Social Sciences in Amsterdam and Berlin, was Acting Editor of the offcial news bulletin of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula (2013–2016), initiated and organised the Fourth World Dracula Congress in Dublin, October 2016, and is the author of The Ultimate Dracula (2012) and Powers of Darkness (2017). He also is the initiator of a planned series of bi-annual international Dracula congress in Brasov, Romania. From 1986 till 2017, he lived and worked in Munich; from 2017 on, he will be based on Bantayan Island, Philippines. CONTRIBUTORS ix Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is the Convenor of the ‘Open Graves, Open Minds’ research centre and a frequent commentator in the inter- national press. She has published widely on literature and science in journals and co-edited a special issue of Gothic Studies on vampires 15.2 (2013). Her books include Botany, Sexuality and Women’s Writing 1760–1830 (Manchester University Press, 2007); Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day (Manchester University Press, 2013); Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves, and Wild Children – Narratives of Sociality and Animality (forth- coming 2017). Magdalena Grabias is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.