Dracula, A Longman Cutural Edition

by Stoker, Bram; Elfenbein, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780205632633
• ISBN10: 0205632637
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-10
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

From Longman's Cultural Edition series, this new edition of Dracula, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, recovers the cultural complexity of Bram Stoker's novel and offers a wide array of contextualizing documents, including contemporary reviews and articles about#xA0;Eastern Europe,#xA0;science, gender, and media. Rather than tracing Dracula through all his later incarnations, this edition offers ways to understand the late Victorian origins of Bram Stoker#x19;s remarkable book.#xA0; While Draculanever simply reflects contemporary trends, reading it with knowledge of contemporary events and debates can clarify what may otherwise seem puzzling. Throughout, Stoker emphasizes that his vampire story takes place not in a hazy, fictional past, but in a sharply realized England of the 1890s. The materials in the sections of Cultural Contexts illuminate the references to Victorian culture in Stoker#x19;s version of this seemingly timeless story.#xA0;#xA0;

Author Biography

Andrew Elfenbein is the Morse-Alumni Distinguish Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He works on 18th- and 19th-century British literature, gender and sexuality studies, the history of English, and cognitive approaches to reading.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vi
About Longman Cultural Editions	p. vii
About This Edition	p. viii
Introduction	p. xi
Table of Dates	p. xvii
Dracula (1897)	p. 1
Appendix: "Dracula's Guest"	p. 378
Cultural Contexts	p. 390
Victorian Reviews of Dracula	p. 391
The Athenoeum (London), June 26, 1897	p. 391
Belfast News-Letter, July 1, 1897	p. 393
The Bookman (London), August 1987: "Novel Notes: 'Dracula'"	p. 394
Daily News (London), May 27, 1897: "Mr. Bram Stoker's New Story [Published Today]"	p. 394
The Era (London), August 7, 1897	p. 396
Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Belfast), June 21, 1897	p. 397
Hampashire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle (Portsmouth), July 10, 1897: "Vampires in London: Mediaeval Horrers Up to Date"	p. 398
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (London), May 30, 1897, "A Romance of Vampirism"	p. 399
National Magazine (Boston), January 1900: Havre Sacque, "Frome the Crow's Nest"	p. 400
New York Tribune, November 19, 1899	p. 401
Pall Mall Gazette (London), June 1, 1897: "For Midnight Reading"	p. 402
The Spectator (London), July 31, 1897: "Recent Novels"	p. 403
Times (London), August 23, 1897	p. 404
Times (Weshington), January 21, 1900: "A Grewsome Tale"	p. 404
Eastern Europe	p. 406
Charles Boner, from Transylvania: Its Products and Its People. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1865	p. 407
Edmund Cecil Johnson, from on the Track of the Cresent: Erratic Notes from Piraeus to Pestb. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1885	p. 408
Emily Gerard, from "Transylvanian Supersitions." The nineteenth Century 101 (July 1885): 130-50	p. 409
Gender	p. 412
[Anon.], from "The Age of Woman." The Eclectic Magazine 46 (November 1887): 643-46: reprinted from The Spectator 60 (August 1887): 1084-86	p. 413
Sarah Grand, from "The Modern Girl," North American Review 158 (1894): 706-14	p. 415
Science	p. 417
Max Nordau, From Degeneration. [trans. anon.] Now York, 1895	p. 417
Havelock Ellis, from The criminal. London, 1892	p. 419
Daniel Hack Tuke, from Steep-Walking and Hypnotism. London, 1884	p. 421
William Aitken, From The Science and Practice of Medicine. 3rd American ed., from 6th London ed. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blackiston, 1872	p. 423
Media	p. 425
James L. Andem, from A practical Guide to the Use of the Edision Phonograph. Cincinnati: C. J Krebhiel and Company, 1892	p. 425
C.L. McCluer Stevens, from "The Evolution of the Typewriter." Strand Magazine 13 (June 1897)	p. 427
Thomas Allen Reed, From A Biography of Isaac Pitman (Inventor of Phonography). London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, the Welsh, 1890	p. 428
Works Cited in the Notes	p. 431
Further Reading and Viewing	p. 433
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