Dracula (Critical Insights)

About This Volume.......Page 2
THE BOOK AND AUTHOR......Page 4
On Dracula......Page 5
Biography of Bram Stoker......Page 15
The Paris Review......Page 20
CRITICAL
CONTEXTS......Page 23
Stoker's Dracula and the Vampire's Literary History......Page 24
A Look at the Critical Reception of Dracula.......Page 39
Dracula and Victorian Anxieties......Page 56
Modernity and Anxiety in
Bram Stoker's Draeula......Page 73
CRITICAL
READINGS......Page 86
Recreating the World:The Sacred and the Profane in Bram Stoker's Dracula......Page 87
The New Naturalism: Primal Screams in Abraham Stoker's Dracula......Page 138
Dracula's Earnestness: Stoker' s Debt to Wilde......Page 153
Dracula:
Righting Old Wrongs and
Displacing New Fears......Page 168
Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals:Questions of Character and Modernity......Page 218
Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promiseof Dracula......Page 252
Racialization, Capitalism, and Aestheticsin Stoker's Dracula......Page 279
RESOURCES......Page 307
Chronology of Bram Stoker's Life......Page 308
Works by Bram Stoker......Page 310
Bibliography......Page 311
About the Editor......Page 313
Contributors......Page 316
Acknowledgments......Page 318
Index......Page 319