The Critical Response To Bram Stoker: (critical Responses In Arts And Letters) [Hardcover]

This volume collects some of the most significant critical responses to the works of Bram Stoker, a writer best known in our time as the author ofDracula. But Stoker wrote other works as well, and he responded to many of the issues that concerned Victorian England and which continue to concern the present-day reader. The introduction to the volume places Stoker in the larger context of the literature of his time and discusses his variety of works. Each section that follows is devoted to one of Stoker's works. Within each section are representative samples of criticism, ranging from the Victorian era to the present day. A selected bibliography concludes the volume. Through this book, Stoker emerges not only as a significant writer of horror fiction, but also as a writer concerned with the role of women in society, the social impact of science and technology, and the impact of racial and ethnic issues.CAROL A. SENF is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written a book on the vampire in nineteenth-century British fiction, and her articles have appeared inCollege English, theNew Orleans Review, andVictorian Studies.

Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Stoker's Life, 1847-1912
Introduction
Under the Sunset
Review in the Spectator (1881)
Review in Punch (1881)
Joseph S. Bierman, Dracula: Prolonged Childhood Illness (1972)
The Snake's Pass
Review in Punch (1890)
Review in the Athenaeum (1890)
The Watter's Mou'
Review in Punch (1895)
Review in the Anthenaeum (1895)
Review in the Nation (1896)
The Shoulder of Shasta
Review in the Athenaeum (1895)
Review in the Spectator (1896)
Dracula
Review in the Anthenaeum (1897)
Review in the Spectator (1897)
Review in the Bookman (1897)
Royce MacGillivray, Bram Stoker's Spoiled Masterpl£$