Dracula

Reviews:

The novel is in one sense committed to the contradistinction of vice and virtue, purity and corruption, human and vampire, but it tacitly questions the possibility of such sharp separations...

—Daniel Pick

I would argue instead that the central appeal of fantastic literature is that, like the violent scapegoat rituals it mimics, it allows its writers and readers simultaneously to acknowledge and deny those aspects of themselves and their world that they find most troubling • to see them both as part of the community and available for sacrifice.

—Kathleen L. Spencer

Description: 

Since its publication in 1987 Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. A classic of fin de siecle fiction, the novel opens with Jonathan Harker's horrific experiences at Count Dracula's castle, then removes to England to follow the Count's seduction of Lucy Westenra and Harker's fiance Mina, returing ultimately to Transylvania to recount the thrilling pursuit  led by Dr. Van Helsing and destruction of the vampire. Within the narrative's gothic recesses  its vaults, coffins, cells, mansions .Stoker captures and inventories a host of anxieties and concerns, from the rise of new media ecology to the status of women, that run through late nineteenth-century culture and continue to be relevant today.

Target Audience: 

Students of English literature.