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6%OFFDavid Glover - Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction - 9780822317982 - V9780822317982
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Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction

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Description for Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction Paperback. Reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula. This book argues that Dracula should be read as a text torn between the stances of the colonizer and the colonized, unable to accept or reject the racialised images of backwardness that dogged debates about Irish nationhood. It is suitable for scholars of Victorian fiction. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print and continually adapted for stage and screen. Paradoxically, David Glover suggests, this very success has obscured the historical conditions and authorial circumstances of the novel’s production. By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula. To bring Stoker’s life into productive relationship with his writing, Glover offers a reading that locates ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
373g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822317982
SKU
V9780822317982
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About David Glover
David Glover is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton.

Reviews for Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
“Excellent. In Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals Glover finally elaborates on the multiple and multiplying contradictions that emerge among the shifting political, racial, and sexual discourses with which Stoker’s works constantly intersect.”—David Lloyd, University of California, Berkeley “Glover’s Stoker is far more interesting than the more typical sensationalized portraits of the author as vampire-wanna-be and more convincing than some of the ... Read more

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