Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Nation and the Spectral Wandering Jew The Contested Enlightenment, the Contested Castle The Primal Scene: The Skeleton in Britain's Closet Cabalistic Conspiracies and Crypto-Jews The Rise of the Vampiric Wandering Jew: A Sinister German-English Co-Production Britain, Vampire Empire: Fin-de-Siécle Fears and Bram Stoker's Dracula Afterword: Pathological Projection and the Nazi Nightmare Works Cited Index

About the Author

Carol Margaret Davison is Acting Director of Women's Studies and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada. She has authored numerous articles on women's writing, Gothic, Victorian, postcolonial and African-American literature, and is the editor of the award-winning study, Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997. She is currently working on a monograph on the Scottish Gothic literary tradition.