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"Dracula's Crypt unearths the Irish roots of Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece, offering a fresh interpretation of the author's relationship to his novel and to the politics of blood that consumes its characters.". "An ingenious reappraisal of a classic text, Dracula's Crypt presents Stoker's novel as a subtly ironic commentary on England's preoccupation with racial purity. Probing psychobiographical, political, and cultural elements of Stoker's background and milieu, Joseph Valente distinguishes Stoker's viewpoint from that of his virulently racist, hypermasculine vampire hunters, showing how…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2002University of Illinois Press · 173 pages · 9780252026966
Count Dracula (Fictitious character)KnowledgeVampires in literatureHistory and criticismBlood in literatureIrelandEnglish Horror talesIn literature