TY - BOOK
T1 - Bram Stoker
AU - Maunder, Andrew
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Most famous for his much-filmed novel Dracula, Bram Stoker was nonetheless a prolific writer. This book offers an introduction to the range of his work - 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 'real' Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes. Moving beyond this, there is a focus on Stoker's career as a late-Victorian and Edwardian novelist in the commercial marketplace, looking at the fictional trends - horror, romance, adventure - which his work encompasses.
AB - Most famous for his much-filmed novel Dracula, Bram Stoker was nonetheless a prolific writer. This book offers an introduction to the range of his work - 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 'real' Bram Stoker, and the lurid speculation this provokes. Moving beyond this, there is a focus on Stoker's career as a late-Victorian and Edwardian novelist in the commercial marketplace, looking at the fictional trends - horror, romance, adventure - which his work encompasses.
KW - Bram Stoker, Dracula, gothic, horror, biography
M3 - Book
SN - 0-7463-1102-8
T3 - Writers and their Work
BT - Bram Stoker
PB - Northcote House
CY - Horndon
ER -