Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts

Isabel Ermida is Associate Professor (Dr Hab.) of English Studies at the University of Minho in Portugal. She holds a PhD on a linguistic approach to literary comedy. She is the author of, i.a., The Language of Comic Narratives (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008) and the co-editor of Language and Humour in the Media (2012).

“Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts is an interdisciplinary collection of articles put together by Isabel Ermida that focuses on the development of the vampire figure from its early inception as a literary personage and a representation of the demonic East European Other in the eyes of Victorian society to its ever-evolving symbolism in contemporary fiction, film, and other media. […] the analytical framework and overview of the ever-evolving vampire literature that this collection offers is an important contribution to Gothic (and Dracula) studies as a field, and will be beneficial to scholars, students, and those who have a general interest in the vampire figure or the Gothic genre as a whole” - Svitlana Krys and Andrew Malmquist, MacEwan University, in: H-Russia, H-Net Reviews, October 2016

• Gothic Old and New: IntroductionIsabel Ermida PART I - Gothic Spaces, or the (De)Colonization of a Genre “The Son of the Vampire”: Greek Gothic, or Gothic Greece? Álvaro García MarínThe Old and New Dracula Castle:
The Poienari Fortress in Dracula Sequels and Travel Memoirs Marius-Mircea CrișanDracula OrientalizedRaphaella Delores Gomez Empire, Monsters and Barbarians: Uncanny Echoes and Reconfigurations of Stoker’s Dracula in Coetzee’s Waiting for the BarbariansRogers AsempasahFlannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: An Antomy of the American GothicCarlos Azevedo PART II - Multimodal Representations of the Gothic – From the Screen to the Stage and the ArtsTod Browning’s Dracula (1931): The Vampire Wears a Dress CoatDorota Babilas Aurally Bloodcurdling: Representing Dracula and His Brethren in BBC Radio DramaLeslie McMurtry “Land of Apparitions”: The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic PlaysEva Čoupková Gothic Architecture, Castles and Villains: Transgression, Decay and the Gothic Locus HorribilisFanny Lacôte PART III - Postmodern Gothic – Identity Transformations of the VampirePostmodern Gothic: Teen VampiresJoana Passos Vampires “On a Special Diet”: Identity and the Body in Contemporary Media TextsLea Gerhards Forever Young, Though Forever Changing:
Evolution of the VampireMaria Antónia Lima Who’s Afraid of Don Juan? Vampirism and SeductionMaria do Carmo Mendes Destroying and Creating Identity: Vampires, Chaos and Society in Angela Carter’s “The Scarlet House”Inês Botelho BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex