Dracula
Subtitle: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Reviews and Reactions, Dramatic and Film Variations, Criticism
Edition: Second ed.
Series: Norton Critical Editions, Victorian era
Publisher: Norton & Company; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780393679205
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: English literature
Description: "This Norton Critical Edition of Dracula is based on Bram Stoker's original British edition, published in 1897. The epistolary novel is told through journal entries and letters starting with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, who travels to finalize a property transaction with the infamous and widely feared Count Dracula. "Contexts" includes a full view into the background of the story, including selections on Transylvanian superstitions and the vampire genre. "Reviews and Reactions" presents readers with nineteenth century reactions in periodicals and from contemporaries. "Dramatic and Film Variations" explores how Dracula has been adapted for the stage and screen throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centujries. "Criticism" explores themes and theories, ranging from the idea of anxiety of reverse colonization and the sexualization of women in the novel. A selected bibliography is also included."