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title	:	Dracula
author	:	Stoker, Bram.; Byron, Glennis
publisher	:	Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1551111365
print isbn13	:	9781551111360
ebook isbn13	:	9780585293806
language	:	English
subject	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Vampires--Fiction, Transylvania (Romania)--Fiction, Horror tales, Psychological fiction.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	PR6037.T617D7 1998eb
ddc	:	823/.8
subject	:	Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)--Fiction, Vampires--Fiction, Transylvania (Romania)--Fiction, Horror tales, Psychological fiction.

Page 3 Dracula Bram Stoker edited by Glennis Byron

Page 4 1998 Glennis Byron All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher or in the case of photocopying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) 6 Adelaide Street East, Suite 900, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1H6 is an infringement of the copyright law. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Stoker, Bram, 18471912 Dracula (Broadview literary texts) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55111-136-5 1. Stoker, Bram, 18471912. Dracula. 2. Dracula, Count (Fictitious character). I. Byron, Glennis, 1955- . II.Title. III. Series. PR6037.T617D7 1997 823.8 C97-932199 Broadview Press Post Office Box 1243, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7H5 in the United States of America: 3576 California Road, Orchard Park, NY 14127 in the United Kingdom: B.R.A.D. Book Representation & Distribution Ltd., 244A, London Road, Hadleigh, Essex SS7 2DE Broadview Press is grateful to Professor Eugene Benson for advice on editorial matters for the Broadview Literary Texts series. Broadview Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Ministry of Canadian Heritage. PRINTED IN CANADA

Page 5 For Rose, who will still shudder as one should

Page 7 Contents Introduction 9 A Note on the Text 25 Bram Stoker: A Brief Chronology 26 Dracula 29 Appendix A: "Dracula's Guest" 421 Appendix B: "The Censorship of Fiction" (1908) 434 Appendix C: Transylvania: History Culture, and Folklore 439 Appendix D: London 451 Appendix E: Mental Physiology 456 Appendix F: Degeneration 468 Appendix G: Gender 473 Appendix H: Reviews and Interviews 481 Works Cited and Recommended Reading 489

Page 8 Acknowledgements In putting together this edition I have been greatly indebted to the fine scholarship of the many critics who have previously written on Dracula, in particular, Stephen Arata, Christopher Craft, David Glover, John Greenway, and Daniel Pick. Barbara Conolly and the staff at Broadview have been consistently helpful and encouraging. Finally, I am most grateful for the support of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

Page 9 Introduction Bram Stoker Bram (Abraham) Stoker (18471912) was born in Clontarf, a seaside town close to Dublin, Ireland. Although three biographies have now been written about Stoker, we still know little about him apart from some details of his public lifealthough a lack of information has certainly led to a surfeit of speculation. He spent much of his childhood as an invalid, claiming, in his Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, not to have stood upright until the age of seven. The cause of his malady remains unknown. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, as a student of science and pure mathematics, but his interest in literature and the arts soon became clear. As an undergraduate he gave talks on Shakespeare, Keats, and Shelley, and became an admirer of Walt Whitman, defending Whitman's Leaves of Grass at a time when it was generally condemned as offensive and immoral. Upon graduating from Trinity, Stoker worked as a civil servant in Dublin Castle, and in 1876 was promoted to Inspector of Petty Sessions. During his time at Dublin Castle, Stoker began writing short stories. His first, "The Crystal Cup," appeared in 1872; his first horror story, "The Chain of Destiny," in 1875. He also developed an interest in the theatre, and in addition to his civil service duties, he began to work as an unpaid journalist, writing theatre reviews for the Dublin Mail

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