![]() A great book for all generations, not too scary and not too boring. Since Dracula is an extremely successful Gothic figure with a long afterlife both in critical appreciation and as a cultural icon, the article follows the main strands of its critical reception in the light of psychoanalysis, gender studies, media studies, and historical discourse analysis it also briefly touches upon the serial figure of the vampire count in the actualisations and media adaptations of the 20th and 21st century. Dracula by Bram Stoker is a wonderful book full of exciting action, suspense and horror. ![]() The article traces the cultural discourses feeding into the novel, such as evolution theory, degeneration, urbanisation, hygiene, gender anxiety, and also looks at the various genres and aesthetic strategies such as travel journal, romance, melodrama, fantastic tale, detective story, and medical case narrative, which are woven into this complex multiperspectival narrative. ![]() The heroes who fight against this menace enrol all available technologies of modernity, science, media, communication, and transport, in order to protect the ‘racial’ and sexual purity of the inhabitants of the motherland against this corrupting invader from the East. ![]() ![]() Read against the backdrop of the Eastern question on the one hand and mass culture and urbanisation on the other, the figure of the Transylvanian vampire count serves as a projection screen for fears of reverse colonisation, invasion, contagion, and miscegenation. This chapter discusses Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) as a symptomatic narrative articulating the cultural anxieties and political fears of late Victorian Britain. ![]()
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