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Dracula
Contributor(s): Stoker, Bram (Author), Elfenbein, Andrew (Author)
ISBN: 0205632637     ISBN-13: 9780205632633
Publisher: Pearson
OUR PRICE:   $37.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Gothic
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010033273
Series: Longman Cultural Editions
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.61" W x 8.46" (1.15 lbs) 456 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
KEY BENEFIT Dracula, A Longman Cultural Eidtion, recovers the cultural complexity of Bram Stoker's novel and offers a wide array of contextualizing documents, including contemporary reviews and articles about Eastern Europe, science, gender, and media.

TOPICS:

  • Rather than tracing Dracula through all his later incarnations, this edition offers ways to understand the late Victorian origins of Bram Stoker's remarkable book.
  • Throughout, Stoker emphasizes that his vampire story takes place not in a hazy, fictional past, but in a sharply realized England of the 1890s.
  • The Cultural Contexts section on Eastern Europe features three of Stoker's most important sources: works by Charles Boner, Edmund Cecil Johnson, and Emily Gerard, whose "Transylvanian Superstitions" was a key inspiration.
  • The section on gender highlights the controversies swirling aroun the "New Woman," whose increasingly aggressive claim to a role in society was disturbing many while energizing others.
MARKET: For anyone interested in learning about the contextual context in which Dracula was wiritten.