<p>*A long overdue study of the social, political and cultural context of Bram Stoker's Dracula * A welcome addition to Dracula studies, using British and Romanian sources * A postcolonial look at Dracula * The book argues that Stoker was at least in part inspired by the marriage of Vlad Tepes' descendant, Mary of Teck, to the future king George V.</p>

Dracula Invades England: The Text, the Context, and the Readers

Literature & Fiction

Artenie, Cristina

British & Irish

Universitas Press

*Student edition, with a scholarly introduction by Jane Austen specialist Sylvia Hunt * Lightly annotated * The unabridged text of a great classic * Academic, easy-to-read format * For use in the college classroom.

Pride and Prejudice

Austen., Jane

Literary

Gothic is a culture of alterity: it explores the Other and it posits itself as an Other. It found its roots in the concerted efforts of eighteenth-century authors who longed for the simple and exciting plotlines of mediaeval romances. At the same time, they were careful to populate other countries and/or other eras with ghosts, vampires, and monstrous villains. More recently, Gothic studies have flourished alongside a plethora of Gothic fiction, movies, and TV shows. These new works employ the genre's conventional themes and cast of characters, while adding new features for new audiences. The perception of the Other has changed while a predilection for othering has endured. Our primary goal with this collection of essays is to contribute to the nascent field of Postcolonial Gothic Studies, understood binomially as a postcolonial version of "Gothic studies" and as the study of the "postcolonial Gothic." Contributors: Avishek Parui, Meital Orr, Joanna Wilson, Jessica E. Birch, Mark Henderson, Monalesia Earle, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zárate, Patricia Vazquez, Lance Hanson, Cristina Artenie, Ipshita Nath, Anubhav Pradhan.

Gothic and Racism: Revised and Enlarged

History & Criticism

This is a scholarly edition addressing different expectations of the readership, by including both the original text and an updated version. In the former, today's readers can follow the unadulterated voice of the narrator, Fanny Hill, with all the lexical and grammatical blunders of a "country girl." In the latter, the spelling and the punctuation have been corrected, but strictly according to eighteenth-century standards, so that nothing of the tone and flavour of the original text is lost. This is the most extensively annotated edition of Cleland's novel with over 300 explanatory notes.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

CLELAND, JOHN

Dracula: A Study of Editorial Practices focuses on deconstructing sanctioned Dracula criticism which, for decades, has constructed Transylvania as the land of the vampires. The present study is an unforgiving close look at scholarly editions of Stoker's novel and shows that the scholarship and the editorial practices are flawed. Following in the Saidian tradition, this study makes the case that the editors of Dracula have misrepresented Transylvania, Romania, and East Central Europe in general, with little regard to the peoples and cultures of the region. This is a unique reference book for specialists interested both in editorial theory and in publishing critical editions of Victorian novels.

Dracula: A Study of Editorial Practices

Dracula: The Postcolonial Edition

Stoker., Bram

Moraru, Dragos

This is the first postcolonial edition of Bram Stoker's gothic classic. For scholars interested in decolonization in literary studies this is a prime example. Jonathan Harker's colonial adventure and Bram Stoker's imperialist discourse are restored to their original context of British economic and political involvement in East-Central Europe. This edition relies both on British and Romanian sources and exposes the cultural appropriation and distortion of Romanian history and folklore. Among the many threads the editors have followed is the very significant one related to the superimposition of the vampire onto Romanian beliefs. This edition avoids the misinformation perpetuated by previous editions of Dracula published during the last four decades. It carefully supplies geographical, historical, ethnographical, and cultural information that will help future scholars as well as the general public. In correctly placing Stoker's novel within British colonial literature, this edition draws attention to the dangers of Othering and of turning a blind eye to Victorian and neo-Victorian practices.

The contemporary popular cultural space has leveraged the queer in the same format of representation as its presentation in the 1990s. Although the queer is portrayed in a less perverse light than a decade ago, popular cultural representations of the queer in the visual culture genres are still on the level of the banal. While popular culture has become more encouraging towards the queer, the broader cultural opinion about the queer has been progressively more skeptical, compromised by the idea that the queer is encroaching on spaces reserved exclusively for heteronormative recreation. The essays in this volume look closely at how the queer is portrayed across media and throughout the world. * It is imperative that analyses of popular cultural depictions and presentations of the queer are performed with the extensive intent towards encouraging a politics of inclusion and towards deterring the abjection of the queer subject in popular cultural portrayals. * Placing Visual Cultures in a Queer Context - Subashish Bhattacharjee; Queeerness and the Limits of Criticism in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac -- William J. Simmons; Queering Yerevan--Politics of Location: A Feminist Material Analysis of Dis/Orientations of Self-Defined Artistic Labour -- Elke Krasny; The Visual Representation of Queer Bollywood: Mistaken Identities and Misreadings in Dostana - Rohit K. Dasgupta; Mobbing, Bullying, and the Queer Victim in Slasher Films from the 1980s - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana Zárate; 'Gross Indecency' Depicting Oscar Wilde on Stage -- Argha Banerjee; "Just Say Yes" Queer Theatrical Portrayals of AIDS and the Rejection of Safer Sex - Lara S. Narcisi; Performing Queer Identities and Mainstreaming Gay Culture in Glee -- Fanny Beuré; 1980--The Year to Fear the Queer: Violent Responses to Patriarchy and Gender-bending in Cruising and Dressed to Kill -- David Klein Martins; "So you Thought we would Go away?" Confronting Shaming in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour -- Anna Fahråeus; Coming Together: Pride and Queer Social Realism -- Florian Zitzelsberger

Queering Visual Cultures: Re-Presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen

Bhattacharjee, Subashish

Dramas & Plays

Is pursuit of the doctorate the ultimate intellectual “survival of the fittest” challenge? Are there common characteristics and experiences that result in success while earning the PhD? Can examining the experiences of individuals successful in pursuing the doctorate lead us towards learning how to increase success rates and decrease doctoral attrition?  The intent of this work is to address these questions and highlight the experiences of those who have earned or are in pursuit of the doctorate. Through learning from the varied experiences of those who have earned or are striving towards the highest academic degree in higher education, we can understand what characteristics assist in rendering success and completion. In addition, by considering the challenges and struggles faced by those holding and pursuing the doctorate, leaders in higher education can determine what strategies may work in ameliorating the process and creating greater equity in terms of graduate education outcomes.

Specialists: Passions and Careers

Business & Money

Davis, Dannielle Joy

Job Hunting & Careers

Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television

onsters seem to be here to stay. Though we have left belief in the supernatural and "realness" of monsters in the past, we continue to craft monstrous narratives which delve into the depths of the human subconscious. In certain cases, we love to love the monster. In others, we bond over mutual desire to see it conquered, vanquished. The inherent mutability of the monster provides us with endless opportunities to reimagine, reenvision, and reencounter these creatures. This volume contains discussions and dissections of monsters across multiple media and geographical origins. However, the notable shifts in how we engage monsters and monstrosity feature heavily in this text. Our contributors tackle resurrections of previous series and conversations through films like Jurassic World and Krampus. Others gravitate towards the rebirth of some of the older, tried and true monsters like the vampire and the zombie, including analyses of Pride and Prejudice + Zombies, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, iZombie, and Teen Wolf—all of which reinterpreted and reinvented these creatures for the modern audience. While the text serves to address these new iterations of the "Classic" monsters in the canon, others take a look at stranger, more fringe monster narratives like Pan’s Labyrinth, The Village, or even the very real parasitic monstrosities of Monsters Inside Me. Though many of these chapters will analytically address particular texts, like the long-running series Supernatural, others will take on the metanarrative surrounding trends within monster studies, such as the construction of identity, creation or representation of the soul, or the ongoing questions of authorship and agency within a particular story world. In its entirety, this volume endeavors to examine how 21st-century media presents and contends with the body and mind of the monster. What do they reveal about us culturally, individually, as a community? What can we learn from them?

Humor & Entertainment

Szanter, Ashley

Movies

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Dracula Invades England: The Text, the Context, and the Readers

Pride and Prejudice

Gothic and Racism: Revised and Enlarged

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Dracula: A Study of Editorial Practices

Dracula: The Postcolonial Edition

Dracula: The Postcolonial Edition

Queering Visual Cultures: Re-Presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen

Specialists: Passions and Careers

Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television