About the Series
About This Volume Part One Dracula: The Complete Text in Cultural Context
Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text (1897)
Contextual Documents
“The Irish Vampire” (1885)
“The English Vampire” (1885)
“The Two Parnells” (1890)
“The Irish Frankenstein” (1882)
Richard F. Burton, from Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870)
Major E. C. Johnson, from On the Track of the Crescent, Erratic Notes from the Paraeus to Pesth (1885)
Sabine Baring-Gould, from The Book of Were-wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition (1865)
Emily Gerard, from The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania (1888)
Cesare Lombroso, from Criminal Man (1911)
Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1892)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, from Psychopathia Sexualis, with Special Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study (1893; English Translation of Seventh German Edition)
Rudyard Kipling, “The Vampire” (1897)
Walter Pater, “La Giaconda,” from The Renaissance (1873; fourth edition, 1894)
Karl Marx, from Capital, Volume I (1867)
Friedrich Neitzsche, from Joyful Wisdom, Book V (1896)
James Frazer, from “On Certain Burial Customs as Illustrative of the Primitive Theory of the Soul” (1886)
Encyclopedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, “Vampire” (1888) Part TwoDracula: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of Dracula
Gender Criticism and Dracula
What Is Gender Criticism?
Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Gender Critic's Perspective:
Sos Eltis, Corruption of the Blood and Degeneration of the Race: Dracula and Policing the Borders of Gender
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Dracula
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
Dennis Foster, “The little children can be bitten”: A Hunger for Dracula
The New Historicism and Dracula
What Is the New Historicism?
The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
A New Historical Perspective:
Gregory Castle, Ambivalence and Ascendancy in Dracula
Deconstruction and Dracula
What Is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
A Deconstructive Perspective: John Paul Riquelme, Doubling and Repetition/Realism and Closure in Dracula
Combining Critical Perspectives on Dracula
Jennifer Wicke, Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media Glossary of Critical and Theoretical TermsAbout the Contributors