Dracula Translated

1898–2024
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-44013-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Gothic

This open access volume explores the translation of Bram Stoker’s into Hungarian (1898), Greek (1903), Slovak (1918), French (1920), Italian (1922), Romanian (1928–29), Spanish (1966), and Serbian (1984). It focuses on how translations were shaped by wider linguistic, cultural, and political contexts and the choices made to make the novel meaningful for particular national audiences. The volume also considers adaptations of in prose, cinema, and theater, framing them as transmedia translations. By tracing the novel’s complex afterlives, the volume fills a critical gap in Dracula studies, offering fresh insights for scholars and enthusiasts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Anca Simina

Light, Duncan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Dracula is a Szekely Vampire: The Hungarian Translation.- Chapter 2 Twilight of the Tsar: On the Russian Translation of  at the End of Empire.- Chapter 3 A Secretive Translation: Dracula’s Journey to Slovakia via Pennsylvania.- Chapter 4 A Postwar Reading of Stoker’s : The Metamorphoses of the Gothic, the Exotic and the Sexual in Ève and Lucie Paul-Margueritte’s 1920 Translation.- Chapter 5 A Perilous Journey from France and Italy: ’s Early Translation into Italian.- Chapter 6 Dracula’s Journey to Brazil.- Chapter 7 Leaving the West and Entering the East:  ’s German-mediated Translation into Romanian.- Chapter 8 From  to : Spanish Translations of Bram Stoker’s Text.- Chapter 9 Powers of Darkness: The Swedish and Icelandic Adaptations of  Chapter 10 Strange Bedfellows:  and Nation-building in Turkey.- Chapter 11 The Adaptation of an Adaptation:  in Istanbul.- Chapter 12 One Hundred Years of  Films.- Chapter 13 Bram Stoker’s  and : Theatrical Touring and Staging Travels.

Über Autor(innen)

Anca Simina Martin is Lecturer with the Faculty of Letters and Arts at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. She has (co-)prefaced a newly rediscovered interwar translation of  into Romanian (Dezarticulat, 2023) and the first Romanian vampire novel ( , Dezarticulat, 2024). Her recent scholarly contributions include “The Interwar Romanian Translation of : A Story of Lost and Found” ( , 2024) and “The Vampire in Late Communist Cinema: From Internal Enemy to Foreign Threat” ( , 2025).

Marius-Mircea Cri?an is Professor with the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the West University of Timi?oara, Romania. He is the editor of (Palgrave, 2017), coordinator of the special issue of (2019), author of (2013) and (2013). He managed the research project (2011–3).

Duncan Light is Principal Academic in Tourism Management at Bournemouth University, UK. He has spent years researching Romania’s uneasy relationship with Dracula, with a focus on Dracula tourism in Romania. He is the author of (2016), along with a range of other studies about Dracula tourism.