Beyond Dracula Bram Stoker}}}s Fiction and its Cultural Context [Hardcover]

Beyond Dracula represents an important critical departure from the customary psychoanalytical approach to the writings of Bram Stoker. Reading Stoker as a participant in Victorian and Edwardian cultural life, the volume examines the breadth of Stoker's novel-length fiction, as well as his journalism, biographical writings and short fiction. In its considerations of questions of religion, censorship, gender and medicine, the volume will interest not merely readers of the Gothic but those involved in the study of Victorian and Edwardian culture.Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Beyond Dracula 'Pity and Terror': Theology, Morality and Popular Fiction 'Un Vrai Monsieur ': Chivalry, Atavism and Masculinity The Taming of the New: Race, Biology and Assertive Womanhood The Sanguine Economy: Hysterical Pathology and Physiological Medicine Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Beyond Dracula is a welcome addition to the critical literature on Stoker's fiction.

-Victorian Studies

William Hughes is Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University College.