Writers & Their Work: Bram Stoker by Andrew Mauder

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134mm x 210mm x 10mm

Pages: 128

Most famous for his much-filmed novel Dracula, Bram Stoker was nonetheless a prolific writer. This accessible book offers an introduction to a range of his work GÇô novels, short stories, biography, and criticism. It provides a discussion of recent scholarship on Stoker including the many attempts to write his life and find the GÇÿrealGÇÖ Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes. Moving beyond this, the author focuses on StokerGÇÖs career as a late-Victorian and Edwardian novelist in the commercial marketplace, looking at the fictional trends GÇô horror, romance, adventure, crime GÇô which his work encompasses. The study discusses StokerGÇÖs bid for fame
as a writer, how his novels were received, and their engagement with contemporary anxieties about gender and nationhood.