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

433 Pages·1997·23.79 MB·English

by  Carol M Davison

Bram Stoker's
Pracula
Sucking Through the Century
1897-1997
Bram Stocker in 1884 at the age of thirty-seven.
Collection of Ann Stocker.
Bram Stoker's
pracula
Suckiig Through the Century
1897-1997
Edited by
CAROL MARGARET DAVISON
with the participation of
PAUL SIMPSON-HOUSLEY
Dundurn Press
Toronto Oxford
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Main entry under title:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-55002-279-2
1. Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula. 2. Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 - Film and video
adaptations. 3. Dracula films - History and criticism. 4. Horror tales, English -
History and criticism. 5. Dracula, Count (Fictitious character). Vampires in literature.
7. Vampires. I. Davison, Carol Margaret. II. Simpson-Housley, Paul.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations 7
Notes on Contributors 9
Acknowledgements 15
Introduction: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997.. 19
CAROL MARGARET DAVISON
Preface: Bram Stoker and His Vampire 41
PATRICK McGRATH
Locating Dracula: Contextualising the Geography of Transylvania 49
GERALD WALKER and LORRAINE WRIGHT
I. Dracula — 1890s Vampire Text
Dracula, The Jewel of Seven Stars, and Stoker's "Burden of the Past" 77
CAROL A. SENF
The "Transparency" of Dracula 95
JAN B.GORDON
The Psychiatrist's Couch: Hypnosis, Hysteria, and Proto-Freudian
Performance in Dracula 123
STEPHANIE MOSS
Blood Brothers: Dracula and Jack the Ripper 147
CAROL MARGARET DAVISON
II. Dracula — Twentieth-Century Vampirised Text
Share Alike: Dracula and the Sympathetic Vampire in Mid-Twentieth
Century Pulp Fiction 175
MARGARET L. CARTER
Vampires in the 1970s: Feminist Oligarchies and Kingly Democracy 195
NINA AUERBACH
The Vampire and the Alien: Gothic Horror and Science Fiction 213
VERONICA HOLLINGER
Teaching the Vampire: Dracula in the Classroom 231
NORMA ROWEN
III. Mondo Dracula — Celluloid Vampires
"It is not good to note this down": Dracula and the Erotic Technologies
of Censorship 249
JACQUELINE LeBLANC
Draculafilm: "High" and "Low" Until the End of the World 269
JAKE BROWN
The Supernatural Ronin: Vampires in Japanese Anime 283
NATALIE BARTLETT and BRADLEY BELLOWS
IV. Dracula at Large — Vampires and Society
Dracula, Monsters, and the Apprehensions of Modernity 321
RICHARD ANDERSON
Dracula as a Contemporary Ethnography:A Critique of Mediated
Moralities and Mysterious Mythologies 331
LIVY VISANO
The Death of Dracula: A Darwinian Approach to the Vampire's Evolution .... 351
BENJAMIN H. LEBLANC
V. "The Red Pages" — Stoker/Dracula Associations/Awards/Resources
The International Count Dracula Fan Club, New York 377
JEANNE KEYES YOUNGSON
The Dracula Society, London, England 383
BERNARD DAVIES
Bram Stoker Society, Dublin, Ireland 387
LESLIE SHEPARD
The Bram Stoker International Summer School, Dublin, Ireland 391
DENNIS McINTYRE
The Transylvanian Society of Dracula — American & Canadian Chapters 395
ELIZABETH MILLER
The Bram Stoker Awards, Horror Writers Association of America 399
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS
Dracula Collections at the Rosenbach Museum & Library,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 405
WENDY VAN WYCK GOOD
VI. Appendix and "The Bloody Bibliography"
The Library of Bram Stoker/A Note on the Death Certificate of Bram Stoker ..411
LESLIE SHEPARD
The Catalogue Description of Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula 417
THE ROSENBACH MUSEUM & LIBRARY PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
The Bloody Bibliography 419
CAROL MARGARET DAVISON
List of
Illustrations
Bram Stoker in 1884 at the age of thirty-seven.
Collection of Ann Stoker 2
Cover of Constable's 1901 paperback edition of Dracula
featuring the first Dracula illustration 20
Program for the staged reading of Dracula at the Lyceum, 1897.
Courtesy of Jeanne Keyes Youngson 26
Illustration by the Rev. William Fitzgerald for Stoker's 1881
collection of stories entitled Under the Sunset 36
Illustration of Bram Stoker and Dracula by Lorraine Wright 42
Illustration of Dracula and Lucy in Whitby by Lorraine Wright 46
Two photographs of Whitby Abbey, Easter 1923.
Collection of Richard Anderson 62
Cover of the first issue of Blood of the Innocent, published
in 1986 by WARP Graphics.
Courtesy of Rickey Shanklin and Mark Wheatley 161
Stills from Vampire Hunter D.
Used with the permission of Streamline Pictures 298, 299
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In loving memory of my grandfather
Robert Davison
who was born in Ireland in 1897
and of Colleen Mclntyre
(1962-1995)
who died prematurely of AIDS
but left her indelible mark on so many
and to the futures of
Cameron Carl Davison (b. 1994),
Jasmine Natasha Pascual (b. 1995),
and Chelsea-Brooke Pascual (b. 1996),
whose marks have yet to be made.
Notes on
Contributors
RICHARD ANDERSON holds a doctorate in geography from York
University, where he teaches part-time. His research has generally fol-
lowed the theme of engineers and nature, an enquiry into broad themes of
modernity. More recently he has developed an interest in applied environ-
mental history, documenting urban pollution and contaminated ground. He
runs a small consulting company which specialises in this work.
NINA AUERBACH is the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English at
the University of Pennsylvania. She is the prolific author of many articles
about nineteenth-century literature, theatre, and culture, whose books
include Communities of Women (Harvard University Press, 1978),
Woman and the Demon (Harvard University Press, 1982), Ellen Terry,
Player in Her Time (Norton, 1987), Private Theatricals: The Lives of the
Victorians (Harvard University Press, 1990), and Our Vampires, Ourselves
(University of Chicago Press, 1995). With U.C. Knoepflmacher, she has
co-edited Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian
Women Writers (University of Chicago Press, 1992).
NATALIE BARTLETT is a graduate from Carleton University, Ottawa,
who holds a degree in Film Studies. She has conducted an in-depth
research project on horror films by studying the Nightmare on Elm Street
series in a paper entitled "Slashing the Screen Test of Popularity: Freddy
Krueger as Main Protagonist." She has reviewed films for the bi-monthly
magazine Video Verdict, and produced a radio show on film, television,
and photography called "Camera Ready," on CKCU-FM. She is also the
author of a murder mystery, and an active member of the National Capital
Freenet, a public access electronic network.
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