AO3 – Context Ideas
-issues are timeless
Stoker stressed the need to censor unwholesome literature
Epistolary Form:
- Stoker's fragmentary quasi-historical grouping of documents creates the multiple narrative perspectives
- positions the reader to identify with each character in turn - disrupts the tendency for the reader to identify or
give privileged credibility to any one narrator
- creates distance between author and reader
- the linguistic range of the narrative includes formal and informal tone, standard English, dialect, archaic
expression, personal memoir reportage along with other styles
BBC Podcast (Bridget Kendall, Dacre Stoker, Dr Sorcha Ni Fhlainn & Dr Sam George):
- Bram Stoker:
- diseased time in Ireland
- sickly for first 7 years of life
- nanny/mother told stories to entertain
- felt like he was one of the premature buried (sick people buried because thought they were dead with his
sickness;
- Sir Henry Irving - Stoker's boss; his character - Mephistopheles resembles Dracula
- .- Ireland rising up, upheaval/struggle
stake -> corrective/restorative procedure for unleashed uncontrollable sexual desire
original ending - as Dracula was stabbed, a massive volcanic eruption destroys Castle Dracula and everyone else
Dracula could have shifted into dust and survived
Nosferatu, 1922 - silent film about Dracula'; copyright infringement and tried to remove it; created sunlight's
t
harm to vampires
Bela Lugosi buried in his Dracula costume
1931 Dracula film debuted on Valentine's Day - associated with seduction
Folklore Vampire -> Romantic Byron -> Satanic Lorg -> reluctant/sympathetic modern Vampire
Historical
1790s -French Revolution
1790s - Industrial Revolution
1790s - Enlightenment (human equality, science, rationality)
1790s - Romanticism
Victorian Era
, - the Contagious Diseases Act - prostitutes and syphilis
- Lombroso/Nordau - criminal psychology and phrenology
- public/private life of Victorian gentlemen; duality
- fear of the
East/Orient
- Freud and the
uncanny
- repressed sexuality
-Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel
-Vlad the Impaler and vampires
- fin-de-siécle
- madness/asylums
- Angel of the House
- science/religion
AO5 Critical Quotes
-issues are timeless
Stoker stressed the need to censor unwholesome literature
Epistolary Form:
- Stoker's fragmentary quasi-historical grouping of documents creates the multiple narrative perspectives
- positions the reader to identify with each character in turn - disrupts the tendency for the reader to identify or
give privileged credibility to any one narrator
- creates distance between author and reader
- the linguistic range of the narrative includes formal and informal tone, standard English, dialect, archaic
expression, personal memoir reportage along with other styles
BBC Podcast (Bridget Kendall, Dacre Stoker, Dr Sorcha Ni Fhlainn & Dr Sam George):
- Bram Stoker:
- diseased time in Ireland
- sickly for first 7 years of life
- nanny/mother told stories to entertain
- felt like he was one of the premature buried (sick people buried because thought they were dead with his
sickness;
- Sir Henry Irving - Stoker's boss; his character - Mephistopheles resembles Dracula
- .- Ireland rising up, upheaval/struggle
stake -> corrective/restorative procedure for unleashed uncontrollable sexual desire
original ending - as Dracula was stabbed, a massive volcanic eruption destroys Castle Dracula and everyone else
Dracula could have shifted into dust and survived
Nosferatu, 1922 - silent film about Dracula'; copyright infringement and tried to remove it; created sunlight's
t
harm to vampires
Bela Lugosi buried in his Dracula costume
1931 Dracula film debuted on Valentine's Day - associated with seduction
Folklore Vampire -> Romantic Byron -> Satanic Lorg -> reluctant/sympathetic modern Vampire
Historical
1790s -French Revolution
1790s - Industrial Revolution
1790s - Enlightenment (human equality, science, rationality)
1790s - Romanticism
Victorian Era
, - the Contagious Diseases Act - prostitutes and syphilis
- Lombroso/Nordau - criminal psychology and phrenology
- public/private life of Victorian gentlemen; duality
- fear of the
East/Orient
- Freud and the
uncanny
- repressed sexuality
-Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel
-Vlad the Impaler and vampires
- fin-de-siécle
- madness/asylums
- Angel of the House
- science/religion
AO5 Critical Quotes
