Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula (ePub)

Name: Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
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Autor: David J. Skal

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Shortlisted for the Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical)

Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction)

Finalist for the Anthony Award (Critical Nonfiction)

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Shortlisted for the Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical)

Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction)

Finalist for the Anthony Award (Critical Nonfiction)

A revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth, bringing us "the closest we can get to understanding [Bram Stoker] and his iconic tale" (The New Yorker).

In this groundbreaking portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal "pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire" (TIME magazine). Examining the myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siecle, Skal stages Bram Stoker's infirm childhood against a grisly tableau of medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that pervades Dracula. In later years, Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving, and his romantic rivalry with lifelong acquaintance Oscar Wildehere portrayed as a stranger-than-fiction doppelgänger. Recalling the psychosexual contours of Stoker's life and art in splendidly gothic detail, Something in the Blood is the definitive biography for years to come.

Autoren-Porträt von David J. Skal

David J. Skal was one of the world's preeminent authorities on Bram Stoker, Dracula, and monsters in popular culture. His book Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (Norton, 1990) was hailed as the ultimate book on Dracula by Newsweek; The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Norton, 1993) has had multiple translations and is widely considered the standard historical and critical survey. As a filmmaker, he wrote, produced, and directed a dozen DVD and Blu-ray documentaries on Universal's classic horror and science fiction films, as well as a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Academy Awardwinning film Gods and Monsters. Skal guest-lectured extensively at major colleges, universities, and cultural organizations in North America and Europe, with speaking engagements at sites such as the Huntington Library, the British Library, and the Musée du Louvre. He additionally taught courses based on his books at the University of Victoria and Trinity College Dublin, where he was also appointed a Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow for Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker (Liveright, 2016), chosen by the Mystery Writers of America as a 2017 Edgar Award finalist for biography and criticism. His official website was monstershow.net.

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Autor: David J. Skal
2016, 672 Seiten, Englisch
Verlag: Liveright
ISBN-10: 1631490117
ISBN-13: 9781631490118
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2016

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