Irish Gothic: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Bram Stoker
Literatura Irlandesa / LEM2055
Dr. Bruce Stewart (UFRN)
Reader Emeritus in English Literature
University of Ulster
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This page gives access to separate indexes (indices) and folders on Joseph Sheridan LeFanu and Bram Stoker - the main "gothic" authors of Ireland and the joint-owners of the vampire tradition in Irish literature. Why did the vampire trope originate in Ireland - is there a historical and/or cultural explanation? There are also copies of leading studies of Irish Gothic as a general phenomena in which the parenthetical question posed here is answered in various ways. To reach the texts and commentary relating to each author, use these links ...
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Some Commentaries and Essays on Irish Gothic
Elizabeth Bowen and W. J. McCormack on the Irish Background of Le Fanus Silas Marner and other works |
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Christopher Craft, Kiss Me with Those Red Lips: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stokers Dracula (1989) |
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Recent Irish commentaries on Dracula: Andrew Parkin, Seamus Deane and Terry Eagleton (1988-97) |
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Roy Foster on Protestant Magic [...], in Yeatss Political Identities, ed. Jonathan Allison (1996) |
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Dawn Boreham, The Revenant in Contemporary Fiction [MA Diss.] (Univ. of Ulster 2006) - extract |
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Maeve Davey, Notes on Gothic Fiction: The Postcolonial Writers of Northern Ireland (Ulster 2007) |
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Bruce Stewart, Bram Stokers Dracula: Possessed by the Spirit of the Nation? (1998) |
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