{"id":3014,"date":"2012-11-08T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2016-01-04T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:42:46","slug":"happy-birthday-bram-stoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/11\/08\/happy-birthday-bram-stoker\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Bram Stoker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some items from our collection that would make appropriate reading for Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Perry, Dennis R.. “Whitman’s Influence on Stoker’s Dracula.”\u00a0Walt Whitman Quarterly Review<\/em>\u00a03 (12 1986), 29-35. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/vol3\/iss3\/5<\/a><\/p>\n

Explores the hitherto neglected topic of Whitman’s potential influence on his admirer, Bram Stoker, emphasizing the writers’ mutual fascination with death, with the boundaries of body and self, and with the connectedness between things; explicates Stoker’s “nightmarish inversion” of Whitman’s themes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Havlik, Robert J. “Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker: The Lincoln Connection.”\u00a0Walt Whitman Quarterly Review<\/em>\u00a04 (Spring 1987), 9-16. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/vol4\/iss4\/3<\/a><\/p>\n

Describes the importance of the recent discovery of the University of Notre Dame Stoker\/Lincoln manuscript and relates its importance to Stoker’s encounters with Whitman and the evolution of their relationship; suggests that Whitman may have influenced Stoker’s views on Lincoln.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Howe, Kathryn. “Vampire Boot Camp: Students Sunk Their Teeth into a Summer of Dark Literature”\u00a0Iowa Alumni Magazine<\/em>\u00a059 (February 2006), 16-17. http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/uap\/id\/23694<\/a><\/p>\n

Butler, Erik. “Writing and Vampiric Contagion in Dracula.”\u00a0Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>\u00a02 (2002): 13-32. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/ijcs\/vol2\/iss1\/4\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Chambers, Samuel A. and Williford, Daniel (2004) “Anti-Imperialism in the Buffy-verse: Challenging the Mythos of Bush as Vampire Slayer,” Poroi<\/em>: Vol. 3: Iss. 2: p. 109-129. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/poroi\/vol3\/iss2\/6<\/a><\/p>\n

Nelson, John S. (2003) “Cowboys or Vampire Killers? The Bush Gang Rides Again, or American Figures in Foreign Affairs,”\u00a0Poroi<\/em>: Vol. 2: Iss. 2: p. 104-117. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/poroi\/vol2\/iss2\/7<\/a><\/p>\n

Buscemi, Nicole Desiree. “Diagnosing narratives: illness, the case history, and Victorian fiction.” dissertation, University of Iowa, 2009. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/etd\/282.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some items from our collection that would make appropriate reading for Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday: Perry, Dennis R.. “Whitman’s Influence on Stoker’s Dracula.”\u00a0Walt Whitman Quarterly Review\u00a03 (12 1986), 29-35. http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/wwqr\/vol3\/iss3\/5 Explores the hitherto neglected topic of Whitman’s potential influence on his admirer, Bram Stoker, emphasizing the writers’ mutual fascination with death, with theContinue reading “Happy birthday Bram Stoker”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}