Receptive Emotion? Stoker and Irving - collaboration, hagiography, self-fashioning

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Homem, Rui Carvalho (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Bram Stoker and the late Victorian world

Pages: 33-50

ISBN: 978-1-942954-64-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-942954-65-1

Publisher: Clemson University Press

Indexing

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > Literature > European literature

Other information

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvhn083n.9

Abstract (EN): In a brief passage from Bram Stoker's Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Stoker offers an account of how, in May 1895, Irving was awarded his knighthood. The narrative duly highlights the exceptionality of the moment, “the first time that in any country an actor had been, quâ actor, honoured by the State;" and it stresses the overwhelming applause that followed, nationally and internationally, since "the telegrams, letters and cables began to pour in from all parts of the world." However, in the broader economy of a text that extends beyond 500 pages, offering a detailed description of Stoker’s experience as....

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific