Giving stoker his due.
| Publisher | Irish Studies Program |
| Publication | Irish Literary Supplement |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0733-3390 |
| Issues per Year | 2 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2008-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Susan Osborn |
| Reviewee | n/a | Bram Stoker |
BRAM STOKER
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Penguin, 2007, $15.00
IN GENERAL, two critical myopias have militated against wider recognition of the value of Bram Stoker's fictional narratives. First, as Anne Williams (Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic) has recently observed, in an attempt to maintain a sense of family respectability, the twentieth-century keepers of the house of fiction--and here she makes special note of the work of F. R. Leavis--treated the Gothic as the "black sheep" of the family, an illegitimate and renegade cousin,...
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