num_pages: 493
description: To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula.The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including "The Censorship of Fiction," in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation.
language: English
title: Dracula
titlecomplete: Dracula
characters: Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, Abraham Van Helsing, R.M. Renfield, John Seward, Lucy Westenra, Dracula, Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Vampires, Horror, Paranormal, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1211662
publisher: Broadview Press