Friday, April 15, 2011

Classics, Dracula, Qualitas

Dracula (Qualitas Classics)









Dracula is the ultimate vampire story. It has it all, from a remote, eerie castle in Transylvania, to the strange nocturnal life of its inhabitant, Count Dracula. Plenty of blood, garlic, stakes to the heart and other details that have become staples of this horror genre. Dracula is written as a collection of realistic, but fictional, diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which add a degree of realism to the story. This publication of Dracula is part of the Qualitas Classics Fireside Series, where pure, ageless classics are presented in clean, easy to read reprints.Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminating footnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the time of publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, and seven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbach of the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires, Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic, The Monster Show, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of the volume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that Bram Stoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papers over the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticism includes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality, gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of "reverse colonization" by politically turbulent Transylvania.







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