San Antonio College Library

"Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has never been out of print in English and has inspired literally hundreds of popular films. In fact, this remarkable work, like its predecessor Frankenstein, almost immediately established itself as an important modern myth. It explores various fin de siecle anxieties about race, class, and gender as well as tensions about the place of science and technology in the modern world, all questions that continue...

Collects critical essays on Bram Stoker's "Dracula," including selections by Juliet Lapidos, Jimmie E. Cain, Jr., David Glover, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.

This authoritative edition of Bram Stoker's Victorian gothic novel is based on the first English edition (1897). Accompanying the text are essays that read Dracula from four contemporary critical perspectives: Gender Criticism by Sos Eltis ; Psychoanalytic Criticism by Dennis Foster ; New Historicism by Gregory Castle ; Deconstruction by John Paul Riquelme. A fifth essay by Jennifer Wicke demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined....

"Dracula's Crypt unearths the Irish roots of Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece, offering a fresh interpretation of the author's relationship to his novel and to the politics of blood that consumes its characters." "An ingenious reappraisal of a classic text, Dracula's Crypt presents Stoker's novel as a subtly ironic commentary on England's preoccupation with racial purity. Probing psychobiographical, political, and cultural elements of Stoker's background...

Discusses Vlad the Impaler, the historical person behind Count Dracula, describes how Bram Stoker came to write his famous novel about him, and examines how the character has been portrayed on stage and screen.