Beyond Dracula

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Reading beyond Dracula

   • William Hughes

   Pages 1-13

3. Pity and Terror: Theology, Morality and Popular Fiction

   • William Hughes

   Pages 14-53

4. ‘Un Vrai Monsieur’: Chivalry, Atavism and Masculinity

   • William Hughes

   Pages 54-96

5. The Taming of the New: Race, Biological Destiny and Assertive Womanhood

   • William Hughes

   Pages 97-138

6. The Sanguine Economy: Hysteroid Pathology and Physiological Medicine

   • William Hughes

   Pages 139-177

7. Afterword

   • William Hughes

   Pages 178-179

8. Back Matter

   Pages 180-216

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Beyond Dracula represents an important critical departure from the customary psychoanalytical approach to the writings of Bram Stoker. Reading Stoker as a participant in Victorian and Edwardian cultural life, the volume examines the breadth of Stoker's novel-length fiction, as well as his journalism, biographical writings and short fiction. In its considerations of questions of religion, censorship, gender and medicine, the volume will interest not merely readers of the Gothic but those involved in the study of Victorian and Edwardian culture.

• bibliography
• culture
• economy
• fiction
• gender
• gothic
• knowledge
• medicine
• morality
• oral discourse
• religion
• theology
• Victorian era
• writing

Beyond Dracula is a welcome addition to the critical literature on Stoker's fiction.

-Victorian Studies

• Bath Spa University College, UK

  William Hughes

William Hughes is Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University College.

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