Something in the blood : the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula

著者

• Skal, David J.

書誌事項

Something in the blood : the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula

David J. Skal

Liveright, c2016

1st ed

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-626) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralysed as a boy and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: fever, opium abuse, bloodletting, quack cures and the obsession with "bad blood" that inform every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his acquaintance with Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed shadow self-a doppelganger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic and his adoration of the actor Henry Irving are examined in scholarly detail.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB27992340
• ISBN:
  • 9781631490101
• LCCN: 2016028093
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 652 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PR6037.T617
  • DC23 : 823/.8
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
  • LCSH : Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography