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).

Gothic Old and New: Introduction
Isabel Ermida

PART I - Gothic Spaces, or the (De)Colonization of a Genre

“The Son of the Vampire”: Greek Gothic, or Gothic Greece?
Álvaro García Marín

The Old and New Dracula Castle:
The Poienari Fortress in Dracula Sequels and Travel Memoirs
Marius-Mircea Crișan

Dracula Orientalized
Raphaella Delores Gomez

Empire, Monsters and Barbarians: Uncanny Echoes and Reconfigurations of Stoker’s Dracula in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Rogers Asempasah

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: An Antomy of the American Gothic
Carlos Azevedo

PART II - Multimodal Representations of the Gothic – From the Screen to the Stage and the Arts

Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931): The Vampire Wears a Dress Coat
Dorota Babilas

Aurally Bloodcurdling: Representing Dracula and His Brethren in BBC Radio Drama
Leslie McMurtry

“Land of Apparitions”: The Depiction of Ghosts and Other Supernatural Occurrences in the First Gothic Plays
Eva Čoupková

Gothic Architecture, Castles and Villains: Transgression, Decay and the Gothic Locus Horribilis
Fanny Lacôte

PART III - Postmodern Gothic – Identity Transformations of the Vampire

Postmodern Gothic: Teen Vampires
Joana Passos

Vampires “On a Special Diet”: Identity and the Body in Contemporary Media Texts
Lea Gerhards

Forever Young, Though Forever Changing:
Evolution of the Vampire
Maria Antónia Lima

Who’s Afraid of Don Juan? Vampirism and Seduction
Maria do Carmo Mendes

Destroying and Creating Identity: Vampires, Chaos and Society in Angela Carter’s “The Scarlet House”
Inês Botelho

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index