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VICTORIAN DREAMS AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD

FURTHER READING LIST ON DRACULA (1897):

An abundance of excellent scholarship on Stoker’s most famous novel has been published over the
years. Below I have provided a small selection, many of which are specifically relevant to the unit’s
themes, to get you started on your research journey.

 Arata, Stephen. “The Occidental Tourist: ‘Dracula’ and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization.”
Victorian Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Summer, 1990), pp. 621-645.
 Auberbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
 Bak, John S. Post/modern Dracula : From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
 Craft, Christopher. “‘Kiss Me with those Red Lips’: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's
Dracula.” Representations, No. 8 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 107-133.
 Daly, Nicholas. “Incorporated Bodies: Dracula and the Rise of Professionalism.” Texas
Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 39, No. 2, (Summer 1997), pp. 181-203.
 Davison, Carol Margaret; Simpson-Housley, Paul. Bram Stoker's Dracula : Sucking Through
the Century, 1897-1997. Toronto: Dundurn, 1997.
 Fleissner, Jennifer. "Dictation Anxiety: The Stenographer's Stake in Dracula." Nineteenth-
Century Contexts, Vol. 22, No. 3 (December 2000), pp. 417-455.
 Gagnier, Regenia. “Evolution and Information: Or, Eroticism and Everyday Life, in Dracula
and Late Victorian Aestheticism.” In Barreca, Regina (ed.), Sex and Death in Victorian
Literature. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990, pp. 140-157.
 Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire. London: Routledge, 1994.
 Halberstam, Judith. “Technologies of Monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula.” Victorian
Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, (Spring, 1993), pp. 333-352.
 Houston, Gail Turley; Beer, Gillian. From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and
Victorian Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
 Hughes, William. Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Reader's Guide. London: Continuum
International Publishing, 2009.
 Hughes, William. Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
 James, Laura. “Technologies of Desire: Typists, Telegraphists and Their Machines in Bram
Stoker's Dracula and Henry James's In the Cage.” Victorian Network, Vol. 4, No.1 (Summer
2012), pp. 91-105.
 Moretti, Franco. “The Dialectic of Fear.” In Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays on the
Sociology of Literary Forms. London: Verso, 1983, pp. 83-108.
 Page, Leanne. “Phonograph, Shorthand, Typewriter: High Performance Technologies in
Bram Stoker's Dracula.” Victorian Network, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Winter 2011), pp. 95-113.
 Senf, Carol A. “Dracula and The Lair of the White Worm: Bram Stoker's Commentary on
Victorian Science.” Gothic Studies, Vol. 2, No, 2 (August 2000), pp. 218-31.
 Spencer, Kathleen L. "Purity and danger: Dracula, the urban gothic, and the late Victorian
degeneracy crisis." ELH 59.1 (1992): 197-225.
 Wicke, Jennifer. “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media.” ELH, Vol. 59, No. 2
(Summer, 1992), pp. 467-493.
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 FILM ADAPTATIONS:
There are hundreds of films which feature the character of Count Dracula, and there have been
many films which claim to be ‘close’ adaptations of Stoker’s novel. Below I have listed a very small
selection of some of the well-received productions, but many more can be found through an online
search.
 Nosferatu (1922); Dracula (1931); Dracula (1958); Dracula (1979); Nosferatu the Vampyre
(1979); Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)