Cover: Dracula, 2nd Edition by Bram Stoker; Edited by John Paul Riquelme

Dracula

Second Edition ©2016 Bram Stoker; Edited by John Paul Riquelme

This revision of the popular critical edition of Bram Stoker’s late Victorian gothic novel presents the 1897 first edition text along with critical essays that introduce students to Dracula from contemporary cultural, psychoanalytic, gender, queer, and postcolonial perspectives. An additional...
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ISBN:9781457619328

Cover: Dracula, 2nd Edition by Bram Stoker; Edited by John Paul Riquelme

A new critical edition of the most famous vampire novel of all time.

This revision of the popular critical edition of Bram Stoker’s late Victorian gothic novel presents the 1897 first edition text along with critical essays that introduce students to Dracula from contemporary cultural, psychoanalytic, gender, queer, and postcolonial perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

New to the second edition are essays that reflect cultural, queer, and postcolonial perspectives, plus an essay that combines several critical perspectives. The cultural documents section features new topics (the lesbian vampire, the new woman), and the updated editorial matter includes a selective bibliography of Dracula films of note.

Features

  • An authoritative text of Dracula
  • Six contemporary critical essays about the novel

  • Documents and illustrations that place the work in cultural context

  • Editorial apparatus that introduces the novel and the criticism for students

New to This Edition

  • New critical essays representing cultural, queer, and postcolonial approaches, plus an essay that combines several perspectives
  • New illustrations and cultural documents covering topics such as the lesbian vampire and the new woman

  • Updated editorial apparatus

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Table of Contents

Part One: Dracula: The Complete Text in Cultural Context

Biographical and Historical Contexts

              The Complete Text (1897)

Part Two: Contextual Documents and Illustrations

Part Three: Dracula: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

                A Critical History of Dracula

                Cultural Criticism and Dracula

New         Leland Monk, Undead Images, Images of the Undead: Dracula on Film

                  Psychoanalytic Criticism and Dracula

                  Dennis Foster, "The little children can be bitten": A Hunger for Dracula

Gender Criticism and Dracula

Sos Eltis, Corruption of the Blood and Degeneration of the Race: Dracula and Policing the Borders of Gender

Queer Theory and Dracula

New             Renee Fox, Building Castles in the Air: Female Intimacy and Generative Queerness in Dracula

Postcolonial Theory and Dracula

New              Gregory Castle, In Transit: The Passage to Empire in Stoker’s Dracula

Combining Critical Perspectives on Dracula

New              Joseph Valente, Stoker’s Vampire and the Vicissitudes of Biopower

Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
Headshot of Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker (1874-1912) is considered one of the great writers of his time.

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John Paul Riquelme