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

by Matthew Gibson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349544418
• ISBN13: 9781349544417
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"