Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction

by David Glover

Book Overview

Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print and continually adapted for stage and screen. Paradoxically, David Glover suggests, this very success has obscured the historical conditions and authorial circumstances of the novel's production. By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317982
• ISBN13: 9780822317982
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.4"