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Bram Stoker and the Treaty of Berlin (1878)

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From: Gothic Studies
Date: 20041101
Author:Gibson, Matthew

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In recent years there has been a marked rise in the interest in Bram Stoker's status as an Irish writer, and in particular with regard to Dracula as a text referring to the Irish Land League crisis. Terry Eagleton has seen in Dracula himself a personification of the bad conscience of the Anglo-Irish,1 while Michael Moses has discerned in him the veiled form of Charles Stewart Parnell, a traitor to the Unionist cause.2 Bruce Stewart has more recently attempted to portray the novel as presenting the full gamut of Stoker's objections to the Irish Land League, with Dracula probably representing ...

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