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Something in the Blood

By Skal, David J

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Something in the Blood

By Skal, David J

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
672
Release Date:
2016-10-04
Publication Date:
2016-10-04
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1631490109
ISBN13:
9781631490101
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1114 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
55 cm
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