Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism )

By (author): "John Paul Riquelme, Bram Stoker"
Publish Date: 1897
Dracula   (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism )
ISBN0312241704
ISBN139780312241704
AsinDracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism )
CharactersJonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Quin
Original titleDracula
Dracula is perhaps almost as interesting regarded historically as the product of a specific time as it is engaging to continuing generations of readers in a 'timeless' fashion. In her introduction Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. At the same time she is entirely attuned to the ways in which, however much Dracula is a Victorian text, Dracula is a very twentieth-century character, a representative of modernity and of the future.Includes complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives