DRACULA AND THE EASTERN QUESTION: BRITISH AND FRENCH VAMPIRE NARRATIVES OF THE NINETEENTHCENTURY NEAR EAST

"Although politically oriented critiques of vampire narratives have tended to treat them as either displaced discussions of the Irish Question or in terms of late imperial anxieties, few have as yet centred on the Near Eastern settings of these works to see them as engaging with the politics of that region. In this work Matthew Gibson eschews the achronic binaries of scholars like Edward Said and places the oeuvres of Polidori, le Fanu, Stoker, Prosper Merimee and Jules Verne against the immediate and specific contexts in which the books were written, to argue that they are in fact concealed allegories of the right response to the Eastern Question - namely, what to do with the Balkan lands once the Ottoman Empire finally fell."--Jacket.