Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic

Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic

Andrew Smith, William Hughes Springer, Oct 15, 1998 - Fiction - 229 pages

Stoker is best remembered today as the author of Dracula. However, as the twelve essays in this volume demonstrate, Stoker's work blends the Gothic with the discourses of politics, sexuality, medicine and national identity to produce texts that may be read by a variety of critical methodologies. Following an Introduction that analyses how Stoker's writings have been critically received in the twentieth century, the book addresses not merely Dracula but also the author's other writings through historicism, psychology and genre.