Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Preface

pp 1-6

Section I - Professions

pp 7-8

1 - Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the English Common Law

pp 9-32

2 - “Receptive Emotion”? Stoker and Irving—Collaboration, Hagiography, Self-fashioning

pp 33-50

3 - The Impress of the Visual and Scenic Arts on the Fiction of Bram Stoker

pp 51-74

Section II - Science, Technology, and Ideas

pp 75-76

4 - “Sure we are all friends here!”: Bram Stoker's Ideal of Friendship and Community in the Context of Nineteenth-century Bio-social Thought

pp 77-100

5 - Communication Technologies in Bram Stoker's Dracula: Utopian or Dystopian?

pp 101-120

6 - Tracking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners’ Reports

pp 121-146

Section III - Politics and Society

pp 147-148

7 - Bram Stoker, Geopolitics, and War

pp 149-176

8 - Black Eyes, White Skin: An Aristocratic or Royal Type in Bram Stoker's Writings

pp 177-194

9 - Bram Stoker's Ambivalent Response to the Frontier and the American Frontiersman

pp 195-214

Coda: An Unpublished Letter from Bram Stoker to Laurence Hutton

pp 215-218

Notes

pp 219-254

Index

pp 255-264