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With notes by Leslie S. Klinger, this lavishly illustrated edition looks at the novel on the understanding that it is based on historical fact. By looking at over 200 years of culture and myth, as well as the original manuscript, Klinger investigates the many subtexts.
Synopsis
Illuminates various aspects of Bram Stoker's haunting novel. This book investigates the many subtexts - from the masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic and 'dentophilic' implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological and historical threads.