Dracula and the Eastern Question : British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth-Century Near East

Name: Dracula and the Eastern Question
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403994776
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ISBN: 9781403994776

2006 ed.

by M. Gibson

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1403994773

ISBN-13 9781403994776

Edition 2006 ed.

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 14th, 2006

Print length 231 Pages

Weight 410 grams

Dimensions 14.60 x 22.40 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Europe Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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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.

Recent politically based works on the vampire novel have been orientated towards Irish or postcolonial contexts. In this work Matthew Gibson couches the work of Mérimée, Polidori, Le Fanu, Stoker and Verne in the immediate and specific context in which their works were written - namely the right response to the Balkan, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian politics. While tracing the views and opinions of the writers themselves, he also analyzes their works to reveal that the vampire acts as an allegory of the Near East through which they suggest (rather than avow) frequently unorthodox views, which are a challenge to critics who profess the ''orientalism'' argument popular today.

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