Open Access“Dracula in Iceland”. An Interview with Marinella Lorinczi
Author(s) -
Maurizio Tani
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nordicum-mediterraneum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1670-6242
DOI - 10.33112/nm.5.1.27
Subject(s) - dracula , appeal , literature , romance , history , art , law , political science
NM. You can be considered one of today’s most important Dracula scholars, especially for studies such as Dracula & Company. The Appeal of the North in Bram Stoker’s Novels (1998), Transylvania and the Balkans as Multiethnic Regions in the Works of Bram Stoker (1996), A Sea Landscape with Victorian Ladies. Three Essays on Dracula (1995), or In the Dragon’s Labyrinth. An Introduction to Dracula (1992). But, how did an esteemed university teacher of Romanian and Romance linguistics, indeed the disciple of Iorgu Iordan, develop an interest in Dracula? And why is Dracula still so popular today?