2003
DOI: 10.1353/elh.2004.0005
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Gothic Genealogies: Dracula, Bowen's Court, And Anglo-Irish Psychology

Abstract: This article reassesses the place of Dracula within a supposed Anglo-Irish Gothic tradition by stressing continuities between Stoker's portrayal of the vampire and the (auto)biographical writings of major Ascendancy figures, and more particularly Elizabeth Bowen's family memoir Bowen's Court. It qualifies the recent focus on Dracula's monstrous body as an allegorical site, and argues that the Irish subtext of the novel may be most palpable in more muted forms of psychological Gothic. It attempts to refine our … Show more

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“…Si bien es cierto que no todos los escritores irlandeses hicieron uso de Irlanda como espacio gótico principal, algunos escritores hicieron uso parcial de este lugar en sus trabajos, como es el caso de Sophia Berkley, mientras que otros no lo hicieron, pero ciertos aspectos irlandeses son discernibles, como en Uncle Silas (Tío Silas) (1864) de Le Fanu, (Ingelbien, 2003(Ingelbien, : 1089.…”
Section: La Atracción De Los Escritores Anglo-irlandeses Hacia La Ficunclassified
“…Si bien es cierto que no todos los escritores irlandeses hicieron uso de Irlanda como espacio gótico principal, algunos escritores hicieron uso parcial de este lugar en sus trabajos, como es el caso de Sophia Berkley, mientras que otros no lo hicieron, pero ciertos aspectos irlandeses son discernibles, como en Uncle Silas (Tío Silas) (1864) de Le Fanu, (Ingelbien, 2003(Ingelbien, : 1089.…”
Section: La Atracción De Los Escritores Anglo-irlandeses Hacia La Ficunclassified
“…57 At the end of his unsettling passage through Ireland/Transylvania, Harker is received by Count Dracula, whom many critics, including Deane and Terry Eagleton, have identified as an Anglo-Irish landlord. 58 The Big House-the distinctive country seat of the Anglo-Irish landowning class, which, beginning with Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800), provided the setting for a great deal of Irish fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-is inevitably evoked by Castle Dracula. Despite its decadent condition and his own shabby appearance, its hermitic occupant is absurdly meticulous in his observation of the etiquette of hospitality, reflecting the futile adherence to tradition by a ruling caste in decline.…”
Section: Count Dracula: Ascendancy Landlord or Underclass Immigrant?mentioning
confidence: 99%