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Dracula

By Bram Stoker , Glennis Byron

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
1998
ISBN
1551111365, 9781551111360
Google Books ID
qF5E5_GqG9sC
Open Library ID
OL8551333M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
925 kB (947415 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula.The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including "the censorship of Fiction," in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation.

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