Why bother reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula?

22 April 2015 · OUPblog

Roger Luckhurst

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Roger Luckhurst considers why Dracula still speaks to modern readers. He connects the novel’s fears of infection, migration and threatened boundaries with later outbreak narratives, while exploring its mixture of Victorian technology, Gothic conventions and older myths.

OUPblog essay dated 22 April 2015. It is literary/cultural analysis of outbreak narratives, technology and boundaries. The source’s analogies with contemporary epidemics are interpretation, not medical guidance.

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Snow-covered wooden church and cemetery in Transylvania. — Transylvanian church and cemetery: the photograph used in Roger Luckhurst’s 2015 OUP essay.Paul Cosmin / Pixabay, via OUPblog; identified by OUP as CC0 in 2015. · Licence