… Dracula's Crypt unearths the Irish roots of Bram Stoker's gothic … of blood that consumes its
characters. An ingenious reappraisal of a classic text, Dracula's Crypt presents Stoker's novel …

… As its subtitle indicates, Dracula's Crypt seeks to intervene in what Valente calls "Irish Dracula"
studies, arguably the most fertile field of Stoker scholarship throughout the 1990s. Thanks …

… These relatively minor errors do not detract from the strength of Valente's study of the Irish
elements in Dracula and Stoker's other fiction, however. Certainly Dracula's Crypt provides a …

… de siècle, Bram Stoker's Dracula was rarely placed in a distinctively Irish literary and cultural
… Valente's inventive new book on Stoker begins by announcing that "the decade of the Irish …

… the novel's Irish dimension became a focus of critical attention (for example in the work of …
study of Dracula Joseph Valente goes one step further, arguing that not only does Bram Stoker …

… the question of Dracula's altered personal appearance: 'I believe it … Dracula blood' in Stoker's
novel, a certain insecurity undermines the poet's assertions here. For just as 'Dracula blood' …

… He also questions where progress lies in the wake of a … of Ireland, Joseph Valente argues
in his book Dracula’s Crypt that one … of blood between Lucy and Dracula, Mina and Dracula’s …

… His forthcoming study is Unlocking Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question
of Blood. Among his work in progress is a co-edited volume entitled Contested Territory: …

… Bram Stoker’s vampire Dracula has served since his creation … blood, whether thrown in a
bag by Dracula himself (Dracula … I believe the answer to the question of whether Dracula, or …

… Dracula’s place in the Irish canon or as a famine novel, this thesis endeavors to answer the
question … populace of their blood can easily be interpreted as an example of Stoker taking the …