Dracula: Bram Stoker (New Casebooks)

Features of Dracula: Bram Stoker (New Casebooks)

The popular appeal of Bram Stokers Count Dracula now over a hundred years old shows little sign of waning No other monster has endured and proliferated in quite the same wayeven if we now seem to prefer interviewing rather than staking our vampires It is only over the last twenty years however that Dracula has begun to receive much serious critical attention The essays in this book represent the most significant contemporary work on the novel from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives including Marxist psychoanalytical historicist and feminist forming a unique collection which engages questions about the psychological and social significance of this highly transgressive and enduringly popular text