Dracula

The volume offers a new perspective on the complex evolution of the Dracula myth and the Gothic space over centuries focusing on its international character Includes perspectives on the Dracula myth from experts from seven countries: UK, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Italy, Germany, USA The book is interdisciplinary and brings together the fields of literature, tourism and film Presents an authoritative volume, both for scholars and for wide public interested in Dracula and the Gothic

Dr Marius-Mircea Cri¿an is Associate Professor at the West University of Timi¿oara, Romania. He is the author of The Birth of the Dracula Myth: Bram Stoker's Transylvania (2013) and The Impact of a Myth: Dracula and the Fictional Representation of the Romanian Space (2013).

1. Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will: Dracula in international contexts - Marius-Mircea Crian.- 2. The Casework Relationship: Le Fanu, Stoker and the Rhetorical Contexts of Irish Gothic - William Hughes.- 3. The Discourse of Italy in Nineteenth Century Irish Gothic: Maturins Fatal Revenge, Le Fanus exotic tales, and The Castle of Savina - Donatella Abbate Badin.- 4. Bloodthirsty and Remorseless Fangs: Representation of East-Central Europe in Edgar Allan Poes Gothic short stories - Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Marius-Mircea Crian.- 5. Spirited Away: Dream Work, the Outsider, and the Representation of Transylvania in the Pied Piper and Dracula Myth in Britain and Germany - Sam George.- 6. Count Draculas Lifetime Identity and Address - Hans Corneel de Roos.- 7. Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London - Clive Bloom.- 8. Tourism and Travel in BramStokers Dracula - Duncan Light.- 9. Castle Hunedoara and the Dracula Myth: Connection or Speculation? - Marius-Mircea Crian.- 10. Location and the Vampire: The Impact of Fictional Stories upon Associated Locations - Kristin L. Bone.- 11. In Search of Draculas Oracular History - John Edgar Browning.- 12. Vampiric Emotion and Identity inDracula andInterview with the Vampire - Nancy Schumann.- 13. Gothic and Horror in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Aesthetic Experience and Emotional Impact - Magdalena Grabias.- 14. Papa Dracula: Vampires for Family Values? - Dorota Babilas.- 15. The Evolution of Gothic Spaces: Ruins, Forests, Urban Jungles - Carol Senf.