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Dracula

Stoker, Bram 1847-1912 (Author).

Summary: "A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. Back at home his fiancee and friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering and destruction. Can the devil really have arrived on England's shores? And what is it that he hungers for so desperately?"--NoveList.

Record details

ISBN: 0394848284
ISBN: 9780486411095
ISBN: 0486411095
Physical Description: vi, 326 pages ; 21 cm.
print
Publisher: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, [2000]
Copyright: ©2000

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Dracula: The Complete Text in Cultural Context -- Biographical and Historical Contexts -- Complete Text (1897) -- Contextual Documents -- "The Irish Vampire" (1885) -- "The English Vampire" (1885) -- "The Two Parnells" (1890) -- "The Irish Frankenstein" (1882) -- Richard F. Burton, from Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870) -- From On the Track of the Crescent, Erratic Notes from the Paraeus to Pesth (1885) / Major E. C. Johnson Johnson, Major E. C. -- From The Book of Were-wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition (1865) / Sabine Baring-Gould Baring-Gould, Sabine -- From The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania (1888) / Emily Gerard Gerard, Emily -- From Criminal Man (1911) / Cesare Lombroso Lombroso, Cesare -- From Degeneration (1892) / Max Nordau Nordau, Max -- From Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study (1893; English Translation of Seventh German Edition) / Richard von Krafft-Ebing Krafft-Ebing, Richard von -- "The Vampire" (1897) / Rudyard Kipling Kipling, Rudyard -- "La Giaconda," from The Renaissance (1873; fourth edition, 1894) / Walter Pater Pater, Walter -- From Capital, Volume I (1867) / Karl Marx Marx, Karl -- From Joyful Wisdom, Book V (1896) / Friedrich Neitzsche Neitzsche, Friedrich -- From "On Certain Burial Customs as Illustrative of the Primitive Theory of the Soul" (1886) / James Frazer Frazer, James -- Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, "Vampire" (1888) -- Part 2 Dracula: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism -- A Critical History of Dracula -- Gender Criticism and Dracula -- What Is Gender Criticism? -- Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Gender Critic's Perspective: -- Corruption of the Blood and Degeneration of the Race: Dracula and Policing the Borders of Gender / Sos Eltis Eltis, Sos -- Psychoanalytic Criticism and Dracula -- What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? -- Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography -- A Psychoanalytic Perspective: -- "The little children can be bitten": A Hunger for Dracula / Dennis Foster Foster, Dennis -- New Historicism and Dracula -- What Is the New Historicism? -- New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography -- A New Historical Perspective: -- Ambivalence and Ascendancy in Dracula / Gregory Castle Castle, Gregory -- Deconstruction and Dracula -- What Is Deconstruction? -- Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography -- A Deconstructive Perspective: -- Doubling and Repetition/Realism and Closure in Dracula / John Paul Riquelme Riquelme, John Paul -- Combining Critical Perspectives on Dracula -- Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media / Jennifer Wicke Wicke, Jennifer.

Target Audience Note:

1060L Lexile