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

Gibson, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006-07-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403994776

DOI: 10.1057/9780230627680

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 231