Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage [electronic resource] /
Wynne, C.author.
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: setting the scene -- Stoker, melodrama and the gothic -- Irving's tempters and Stoker's vanishing ladies: supernatural production, mesmeric influence and magical illusion -- Ellen Terry and the "bloofer lady": femininity and fallenness -- Gothic weddings and performing vampires: Geneviève Ward and The lady of the shroud -- The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion.
Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking.
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Theater.
Motion pictures and television.
Fiction.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Communication.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Screen Studies.
Fiction.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Media Studies.