Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker), 1847–1912, English novelist, b. Dublin, Ireland. He is best remembered as the author of Dracula (1897), a horror story recounting the activities of the vampire Count Dracula and those who oppose him. The fame of the leading character was furthered by popular stage and film adaptations of the novel. Stoker's other novels include The Jewel of Seven Stars (1904). For 27 years he was manager of the actor Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre.
See biographies by B. Belford (1996) and D. J. Skal (2017); R. T. McNally and R. Florescu, In Search of Dracula (1972); R. Dalby, Bram Stoker: A Bibliography of First Editions (1983).
Dracula: Selected full-text books and articles
Dracula
Oxford University Press, 1998
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Black and White and Read All Over: Performative Textuality in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Studies in the Novel, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2001
PEER-REVIEWED PERIODICAL
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The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988
The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999
The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror
Westview Press, 2000
Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790
Clarendon Press, 1997
Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations
Greenwood Press, 1997
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