W. Hughes - Böcker

Reading Stoker as a participant in Victorian and Edwardian cultural life, this book examines the breadth of Stoker's novel length fiction, as well as his journalism, biographical writings and short fiction. Its considers questions of religion, censorship, gender and medicine, making it suitable for readers of the Gothic and those involved in the study of Victorian and Edwardian culture.

This volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of post-colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for post-colonial ends. Post-colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re examine the ostensibly colonialist writings of William Beckford, Charlotte Dacre, H. Rider Haggard and Bram Stoker.

Beyond Dracula represents an important critical departure from the customary psychoanalytical approach to the writings of Bram Stoker. Reading Stoker as a participant in Victorian and Edwardian cultural life, the volume examines the breadth of Stoker's novel-length fiction, as well as his journalism, biographical writings and short fiction.