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Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897. In its exploration of deep-rooted fears and dark desires, the novel is a typical product of the 1890s. This can also be claimed for its irresistible and repulsive main character, who offers a peculiar construct of masculinity. When we look at the novel’s reception history from the point of view of the early twenty-first century, we see that Dracula is one of the most important cultural products of late Victorianism.
The seminar is subdivided into three main sections: 1.) a contextualisation of the novel in its own time; 2.) close readings; 3.) a discussion of Dracula’s intermedial reception history, i.e., analyses of films (by Tod Browning (1931), Terence Fisher (1958), Francis Ford Coppola (1992)) and, only briefly, a recent Dracula TV series.
(NB: We will NOT explicitly focus on Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance series Twilight nor on the films it spawned nor on any other products of the recent vampire craze.)
Text (you must use this edition; if you don’t have it, you will be excluded from the seminar):
Bram Stoker. Dracula. Ed. Maurice Hindle. London: Penguin, 2004. ISBN 978-0-141-43984-6 |
