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Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

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From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20030322
Author:Daly, Nick

Joseph Valente, Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood. Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 2001. 173 pages, USD 29.95 (hardback).

Dracula (1897) has come a long way. Once regarded as almost beneath serious critical notice, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed a dramatic improvement in the critical fortunes of Brain Stoker's vampire novel, when psychoanalytical! feminist critics began to see it as a window onto fin-de-siecle sexual fears and longings. If initially these critics tended to situate Dracula as a gory shilling shocker whose very ...

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