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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 Fanu’s Silas Marner and other works |
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| Christopher Craft, ‘“Kiss Me with Those Red Lips”: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s 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 Yeats’s 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 Stoker’s Dracula: Possessed by the Spirit of the Nation?’ (1998) |
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