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Beyond Dracula | 
 enlarge | Authors: William Hughes, Ted Hughes
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 230
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0312231369
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780312231361
ASIN: 0312231369
Publication Date: 2000
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A much needed investigation into Stoker's work at large February 25, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
With the rise in popularity of the study of gothic literatures William Hughes's 'Beyond Dracula' is a welcome addition to the still slim collection of studies on Bram Stoker's fiction that dares to venture beyond the thrall of Dracula. There has been a reclamation of Stoker as an Irish writer in recent years with a number of notable essays and papers published on a variety of approaches to Dracula and to some of Stoker's other works. However, there is a dearth of longer studies beyond those on Dracula itself and Hughes's book goes some way to filling the void. The psychosexual analysis of Dracula has been covered extensively elsewhere and here Hughes concentrates on the politics and culture of gender questions of the time, and again his close investigation of novels of Stoker better informs the reading of Dracula. Although the questions of race, chivalry, gender and religion have all been addressed before by others, they have generally been within the context of gothic literature as a genre or specific to Dracula. What William Hughes does is to use them in a wider study of Stoker's work as only David Glover in 'Vampires, Mummies and Liberals', has attempted before. Hughes's study also benefits from the extra six years of scholarship and research on both gothic literatures in general and on Bram Stoker in particular since David Glover's book. The popularity of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature has enabled Hughes to include a fascinating chapter on 'the sanguine economy' in which he puts this aspect of Dracula within the historical context of late Victorian medical thinking. This last chapter on Dracula does belie the title of the book somewhat. A more accurate phrasing might have been Dracula and Beyond as nearly a quarter of the book is about his most famous novel. It is a pity that Stoker's short stories, apart from those written ostensibly for children, are not addressed in this book as they are of considerable interest and some of the better ones have often been anthologised. In the last few years many of Stoker's stories have been republished. It is to be hoped that Hughes will resurrect Stoker as a subject in further work
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