David J. Skal
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
- ISBN 13:
- 9781631490101
- author:
- David J. Skal
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Liveright
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 672
- Dimensions:
- 16.5 x 5.3 x 24.4 cm
- Genre:
- Biography, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights, , David J. Skal,Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula,Liveright,1631490109,Biography: Literary,European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Biography & Autobiograph
- Condition:
- New
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Description
Bram Stoker's life has long been shrouded in mystery, but his most enduring legacy is arguably the creation of Dracula. In "Something in the Blood", David J Skal uncovers the inner world and strange genius of the writer behind this cultural icon. Staging Stoker's life against a backdrop of Victorian anxieties, Skal investigates the writer's "transgendered imagination" and unearths previously unknown aspects of his life, including unpublished poetry and passionate correspondence with Walt Whitman. Born into a middle-class Protestant family in Dublin during the devastating potato famine, Stoker's early years were marked by medical mysteries and horrors that would later influence his writing. This biography draws on newly discovered documents to challenge prevailing wisdom about Dracula, Stoker, and the late Victorian age, painting an astonishing portrait of the era in which he was born.
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