Past and present attitudes to Romanian and Bulgarian immigration in the UK
>full text & illustration (c) BBC HISTORY, 2013
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Why DracuLand still stokes British anxieties
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bulgaria, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, immigrants, migration, Romania, Stereotyping, UK on 17 May 2013 by delclemBiting (Sex?) Appeal
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Dracula, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Stoker, Transylvania, Vampire on 20 April 2012 by delclem
20 April 1912 was not only the 23rd birthday of an unknown wanna-be named Hitler; it was also the day when Bram Stoker, author of the immortal Dracula novel, died. > GERMAN TEXT VERSION
“This is the textbook of vampirism, but the journalist Bram Stoker has turned it into a typewriter ad,” wrote the Austrian Alfred Kubin, himself a master of uncanny art, in a letter full of contempt in 1915. He has not been the only critic since trying to desecrate the tomb of the Anglo-Irish author. However, this has done little damage to the undead popularity of the literary work in question: Dracula (1897), apart from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) probably the most successful undead monster of world literature; a novel that has never been out of print in its more than 110 years on the book market.
delirium clemens 