Dracula By Bram Stoker (Edited by Glennis Byron) - 1997

CONDITION: Excellent condition, no flaws Written by: Bram Stoker Edited by: Glennis Byron Publication Date: December 9, 1997 Product details ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1551111365 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Broadview Press; Revised ed. edition (December 9, 1997) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 493 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781551111360 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1551111360 To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is “nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance.” In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula. The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including “the censorship of Fiction,” in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation.