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I'm surprised the differences could have been kept out of mainstream literary research for so long. I read Dracula in my 11th grade english class. If it's taugh
by padobson 9y ago
I'm surprised the differences could have been kept out of mainstream literary research for so long. I read Dracula in my 11th grade english class. If it's taught in high school, you'd think there'd have been some sort of academic trading (foreign exchange, university collaborations, etc) between countries that noticed the differences. Sounds like they missed out on a chance to publish.
- drzaiusapelord 9y agoWell, it was Iceland circa 1902. It had a ~75,000 person population and was fairly isolated from the world. This run may have been as little as few (couple?) hundred books. I could see such a small run being ignored for a long time. How many of those weren't disposable weekend reads that ended up in the trash within weeks/months? I imagine once the initial novelty wore off, no one cared and Iceland's small number of Icelandic readers guaranteed that their version wasn't going far. I also imagine some Icelandic people knew they had a different version, but Iceland, up until recently, was just a backwaters of Denmark. It may have been an amusing anecdote between Icelandics and the Danish or English who read the true version. Maybe an inside joke between a couple dozen people? Not enough to make the international press. Now its just a historic novelty on the smithsonian mag blog, not exactly the front page of the NY Times.
- atlithorn 9y agoUp until recently? In Vampire years you mean?