Gothic Elements in Bram Stoker's Dracula (2024)

VAMPIRIC SEDUCTION AND VICISSITUDES OF MASCULINE IDENTITY IN BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

Victorian Literature and Culture, 2009

Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Handbook for Understanding the Inexplicable

British Fantasy Society Journal , 2021

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Century of Publication and Critical Response

Dracula’s place within the literary culture of the 1890s is as problematic and at times as contradictory as its text. The novel presents the allure of the forbidden – a surrender to pleasure, sexual ambiguity, superstition, seduction by the foreign or decadent “other” – only to assert suppression of the forbidden by traditional Victorian masculine morality. However, the victory of that morality is never final: the death of the Count cannot undo the transgressions he has enacted or those enacted by the other characters in response. The novel’s uneasy movement between competing states of being, its different layers of romance and horror, the sexual elements of the plot and its perceived commentaries upon gender, race, and empire, are a part of the appeal to both readers and critics alike. Certainly, the novel’s longevity can be connected directly to the varied receptions and the myriad layers of possible personal and critical interpretation.

Patterns, Symbols and Themes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Patterns, Symbols and Themes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula -by Ferenc Zselyi, 2014

Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula (1897) is a discourse on the visible and the invisible, on the seemingly good and the primary evil that is, also, "good"; on the effable and the ineffable. The beautifully written end-of-the-century prose depicts horror and "disgust" and their perception only to show how much of the horror is coming from within the human soul. The long narrative is constituted by a complex of symbolic oppositions that make this novel a good, interesting and/or exciting reading for everyone. This was the first Modernist novel written in English literature - it has nothing to do with "vampires" and ghosts who/that are "only" signifiers and/or symbols or emblems in this discourse. Stoker's novel is the predecessor of Yeats' symbolism and Joyce's time travel in Ulysses.

Dracula and Duty

Textual Practice, 2009

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Critical Feast, An Annotated Reference of Early Reviews and Reactions, 1897-1913 [uncorrected proof excerpt]

2012

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA: THE CRITICAL FEAST An Annotated Reference of Early Reviews and Reactions, 1897-1913 Compiled and Annotated, with an Introduction, by John Edgar Browning Bibliographical Afterword by J. Gordon Melton PRAISE: “Dryden said of The Canterbury Tales that “here is God’s plenty,” and one might say the same thing about Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Critical Feast. Browning has assembled an exhaustive collection of contemporary reviews of Dracula, reviews that put Stoker’s novel into context and demonstrate its almost instantaneous popularity. In addition, The Critical Feast includes copies of early covers and photographs of Stoker. This is a book that every student of Dracula will be proud to own…and pore over, a feast for the eyes and for the mind.” —Dr. Carol A. Senf, Bram Stoker (Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions) and The Critical Response to Bram Stoker “Both scholars and devoted fans will rejoice in Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Critical Feast. This exhaustive compilation fulfills a long-standing need in the realm of Dracula studies and provides a valuable fresh perspective on the early popular and critical reception of Stoker’s masterpiece.” —Dr. Margaret L. Carter, The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography and Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien “This meticulously researched book puts to rest misconceptions long held by many Dracula scholars (myself included) about the reception of Stoker's novel. A superb achievement and a scholar’s delight!” —Dr. Elizabeth Miller, Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon and Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition SYNOPSIS: There is a common misconception that the early critical reception of Bram Stoker’s famed vampire novel, Dracula (1897), was “mixed.” This reference book sets out to dispel this myth en force by offering the most exhaustive collection of early critical responses to Stoker’s novel ever assembled, including some 91 reviews and reactions as well as 36 different press notices, many of which have not been seen in print since they appeared over 100 years ago. What these early critical responses reveal about Dracula’s writing is that it was predominantly seen by early reviewers and responders to parallel, even supersede the Gothic horror works of such canonical writers as Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Edgar Allan Poe. Accompanying the critical responses are annotations and an introduction by the editor, a bibliographical afterword by J. Gordon Melton, 32 illustrations, and a bibliography."

Straining the Limits of Interpretation: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Its Eastern European Contexts

The vampirisation of the novel: narrative crises in Dracula

Palgrave Communications, 2018

Monstrous Literature: The Case of Dacre Stoker’s Dracula the Undead

"This is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true": Narrative Mediation and Gothic Uncertainty in Bram Stoker's Dracula.