Twenty-four nocturnal philosophers stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles, unearthing evidence from numerous movies and showsmacabre, terrifying, tragic, and comic. Altmann decides whether Dracula can really be blamed for his crimes, since...
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Twenty-four nocturnal philosophers stake out and vivisect Dracula from many angles, unearthing evidence from numerous movies and showsmacabre, terrifying, tragic, and comic. Altmann decides whether Dracula can really be blamed for his crimes, since it's his nature as a vampire to behave a certain way. Arp argues that Dracula's addiction to live human blood dooms him to perpetual misery. Karavitis sees Dracula as a Randian individual pitted against the Marxist collective. Ketcham contrives a meeting between Dracula and the Jewish theologian Maimonides. Littmann maintains that if we disapprove of Dracula's behavior, we ought to be vegetarians. Mahon uses the example of Dracula to resolve nagging problems about the desirability of immortality. McCrossin and Wolfe, disinter some of the re-interpretations of this now-mythical character, and asks whether we can identify an essential Dracula. Pramik shows how the Dracula tale embodies Kierkegaard's three stages of life. Barkman and Versteeg ponder what it would really feel like to be Dracula. The Greens publish some previous unknown letters between Dracula and Camus's Meursault. Vuckovich looks at the sexual morality of characters in the Dracula saga. De Waal explains that "Dragula" is scary because every time this being appears, it causes "gender trouble.". Intro -- Contents -- Death Becomes Him-Finally -- I The Downside of Undeath -- 1. The Curse of Living Forever -- 2. Why Fighting Dracula Is Absurd -- 3. They Shall Become One Flesh -- 4. Dracula's Rules -- 5. Dracula's Dilemma -- II A Vampire's Values -- 6. What's Wrong with Being a Vampire? -- 7. Expert Testimony in the Trial of Count Dracula -- 8. Why Count Dracula Can Never Be Evil -- 9. Baraing Fangs, Bearing Responsibility -- 10. The Denial of Dracula -- III What's It Like to Be Dracula? -- 11. Being Count Dracula -- 12. What Manner of Man, Monster, or Person? -- 13. Who's the Ideal Dracula? -- 14. There and Bat Again -- 15. More Things in Heaven and Earth -- IV Why We're Afraid -- 16. Dracula in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- 17. Letting Dracula Out of the Closet -- 18. The Empire's Vampiric Shadow -- 19. Vampirism and Its Discontents -- 20. Dracula: The Shadow Archetype -- V From the Dracula Files -- 21. Memoirs of the Prince of the Undead -- 22. Correspondences between the Count and the Stranger -- 23. Dracula's Quest for Enlightenment -- 24. Hoover and McCarthy Meet Dracula -- References -- The New Crew of Light -- Index.
