Dracula and the Eastern question: British and French vampire narratives of the nineteenth-century Near East

Abstract

List of Maps Acknowledgements Note on Translations Introduction Polidori's The Vampyre and the Dangers of Philhellenism to Italian Liberation J.Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and the Austro-Hungarian 'Ausgleich' (1878) Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Treaty of Berlin (1878) Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud and the Bosnia Crisis (1908-9) The Vampires of Illyria: Nodier, Merimee and the French Occupation of the Dalmation Coast Jules Verne's Le Chateau des Carpathes (1892) and the Romans of Transylvania Conclusion Appendix: Translations from Merimee's La Guzla Notes Short Chronology of Relevant Events Bibiliography Index