Something in the Blood The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralysed as a boy and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: fever, opium abuse, bloodletting, quack cures and the obsession with "bad blood" that inform every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his acquaintance with Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed shadow self-a doppelgänger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic and his adoration of the actor Henry Irving are examined in scholarly detail.

ISBN:	9781631490101
Publisher:	Liveright
Imprint:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published date:	04 Oct 2016
DEWEY:	823.8
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvii, 652 , 14 of unnumbered plates
Weight:	1132g
Height:	171mm
Width:	244mm
Spine width:	49mm

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