Dracula

Combining the first edition text of Bram Stokers iconic novel with critical essays, Dracula puts the novel in context among perspectives such as contemporary cultural, psychoanalytic, gender, queer, and postcolonial in order to deepen your understanding of the novel and relate it to modern topics.

Part One: Dracula: The Complete Text in Cultural Context

Biographical and Historical Contexts

The Complete Text (1897)

Part Two: Contextual Documents and Illustrations

Part Three: Dracula: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

A Critical History of Dracula

Cultural Criticism and Dracula

New Leland Monk, Undead Images, Images of the Undead: Dracula on Film

Psychoanalytic Criticism and Dracula

Dennis Foster, The little children can be bitten: A Hunger for Dracula

Gender Criticism and Dracula

Sos Eltis, Corruption of the Blood and Degeneration of the Race: Dracula and Policing the Borders of Gender

Queer Theory and Dracula

New Renee Fox, Building Castles in the Air: Female Intimacy and Generative Queerness in Dracula

Postcolonial Theory and Dracula

New Gregory Castle, In Transit: The Passage to Empire in Stoker’s Dracula

Combining Critical Perspectives on Dracula

New Joseph Valente, Stoker’s Vampire and the Vicissitudes of Biopower

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms