Thanks for this, Candice; I'll keep a look out for it.
I'm just a bit of a reader of vampire fiction (& a big, but not really
fannish, fan of Buffy). And the last English course I taught, in my
retirement year, was a senior course on popular culture titled
Twentieth Century Vampires, which took in a long 20th century as we
began with some short fiction & Dracula from the 1890s.
There are a couple of novels, highly erotic/romantic, starring Mina, &
Dracula's last sister, that take the original story further, Mina &
Blood to Blood.
If you'd like to see my course list, I'd be happy to send it b/c.
Doug
On 27-Feb-07, at 10:01 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> Doug (and others who may be interested in the
> narrative strategies used to recover--or recuperate-
> the history as well as the new "reimaginings" of the
> Dracula legend), there's a new novel out called
> (unfortunately, in my opinion) _Fangland_ by John
> Marks. This time the Dracula material is set in the
> world of broadcast journalism, where "Evangeline
> Harker" (presumably the daughter or granddaughter of
> Jonathan and Mina) works as a producer. The novel
> begins with her journals, as Stoker's does with
> Harker's journal, apart from a brief foreword by one
> James Malley that is similar to Stoker's. Malley
> begins by saying that "the following document" was
> "generated in the spirit of the 9-11 Commission
> Report," which gives you some idea of its deliberately
> contemporary basis. Again, there are several
> speakers/writers competing for the "I" position.
> "James Malley" also says in his foreword that the book
> is "an heir to the great novels of the realism of the
> nineteenth century, a Tolstoyan account of calamity."
>
> That's all I can tell you about _Fangland_, which I
> acquired at my local library just today. (I also
> ordered _Children of the Night_--on the basis of
> Doug's recommendation--thanks for the tip.)
>
> I'm curious, Doug, about your interest in this
> material. Can you say something about that?
>
> Candice
>
> There is throughout no statement of past things
> wherein memory may err...
> (Bram Stoker)
>
>
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