Dracula

Basic Info

Author: Bram Stoker
Year: 1897
Type: #primary1

Summary (brief)

-Dracula travels to England aboard the ship Demeter, where he slaughters the entire crew along the way. The ship runs aground in Whitby during a demonic storm, and Dracula emerges in the shape of a big dog.

Major Themes

#monsterhouse
#monstrous-landscape
#monstrous-masculine
#trans-corporeality
#invasion
#gothic

Key Passages / Quotes

Quote 1

#quote

quote:: “I am no bird.”
page:: 197
themes:: freedom, identity

Genre Notes

-Not just #epistolary but an archive - characters use typewriters, shorthand, phonographs, telegrams, newspaper clippings; Mina Harker as archivist; takes fragments and types them together into a record.

Characters / Concepts (if relevant)

Theory Connections

My Argument / Interpretation

-Maybe a good example of how queerness/gayness has to be depicted in a monstrous way.

Dissertation Relevance

How could this matter to my project?

-Porous bodies; Derridean Ghost/haunting, monsterhouse, topographic horror

Critical Questions

-Creed, Alaimo, Kristeva, Derrida
How do genre & craft shape truth
monstrous depictions of interiority

{{Dracula}}