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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula
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Published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula was the last of the nineteenth century's three major horror stories. It followed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but Stoker's novel had the greater impact on our culture and our nightmares. Count Dracula has been called the king of the vampires, but, in truth, he is the king of all the monsters, and his influence can be seen everywhere today: in everything from the number-obsessed count on sesame street to the vast fandom for Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. He is arguably the most recognized of characters, not the least of which is the iconic performance of Bella Lugosi. With Stoker's novel serving as the backbone, this Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to the world's most famous vampire considers all aspects of the Dracula phenomenon in often entertaining and unexpected ways-in the Bedside tradition: the book, its author, its psychological and sociological implications, the stage plays, the movies, television versions, the actors, and, of course, the historical Dracula, Vlad the Impaler.
Table of Contents
Bram Stoker: The Man Behind the Vampire
Dracula Rises: the 1897 publication
The Pre-History, Vampire Style: Myths and Legends Around the World
The Pre-History, Vampire Lit 101: (Polidori, Varney, Carmilla)
The Pre-History, Horror Ancestry: (Shelley, Poe, Stevenson, Le Fanu)
The Victorian Era: Influence on Stoker & his book
The Novel: Chapter by Chapter breakdown
The Characters: Harker, Mina, Van Helsing, Seward, Arthur, Lucy, Quincey Morris, Renfield, Dracula, etc.
Dracula in the Book: Hell of an entrance, then.
Dracula's Powers
Dracula's Weaknesses
10 Ways to Destroy a Vampire
The Thrill of the Hunt: Dracula as an adventure book
Map of 1897 London, showing locations of boxes
Metaphors and Monsters: What does Dracula represent: Then and Now?
Psychological Underpinnings: The musings of Leonard Wolf
The Blood is the Life: Examining the book's "fluid" nature
Drop-Dead Sexy: Sex and Seduction in the story
Lugosi: Bela takes the role from Broadway to Hollywood to Immortality
The Major Films: Nosferatu (1922): Max Schreck in the first Dracula film; Dracula (1931); etc.
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Lugosi returns
Dracula Crest Ring, Chaney to Carradine to Lugosi to Lee
Dracula in the 1950s: Francis Ledererer and signs of the times in The Return of Dracula (1958) Radio-Free Dracula: Radio adaptations
Counting Up the Post-Modern Draculas
Dracula On the Record: Albums including Famous Monsters Speak! Landau as Lugosi in Ed Wood Wes Craven's Dracula
The Dracula Crossword Puzzle (using names from the books and actors associated with the role)
From the Count on Sesame Street to Count Chocula on cereal boxes.
The Dracula Industry
Product details
| Published | Jun 15 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 200 |
| ISBN | 9780826417947 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Illustrations | 75 |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Series | Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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