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Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood

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From: Novel
Date: 20021001
Author:Daly, Nick

Out of the Crypt JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. xi + 173, paper, $29.95.

Dracula (1897) has arrived. Once considered as almost beneath serious critical notice, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed a dramatic improvement in the fortunes of Bram Stoker's vampire novel, when psychoanalytical and feminist critics began to see it as a veritable circus of fin-de-siecle sexual fears and longings. If initially these critics tended to situate Dracula as a gory shilling shocker whose very crudeness made it an ...

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