CONTENTS:

The volume contains 20 edited papers from "Dracula 97: A Centennial Celebration" (Los Angeles, August 1997) as follows:

Nina Auerbach, "Dracula Keeps Rising from the Grave"

David Dickens, "The German Matrix of Stoker's Dracula"

Diane Milburn, "'For the dead travel fast': Dracula in Anglo-German Context"

Clemens Ruthner, "Bloodsuckers with Teutonic Tongues: The German-Speaking World and the Origins of Dracula"

Pericles Lewis, "Dracula and the Epistemology of the Victorian Gothic Novel"

Stephanie Moss, "Bram Stoker and the Society for Psychical Research"

William Hughes, "'Terrors that I dare not think of': Masculinity, Hysteria and Empiricism in Stoker's Dracula"

Jimmie Cain, "'With the Unspeakables': Dracula and Russophobia"

David Schmid, "Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? The Contradictory Function of Writing in Dracula"

Bernard Davies, "Inspirations, Imitations and In-Jokes in Stoker's Dracula"

Clive Leatherdale, "Stoker's Banana Skins: Errors, Illogicalities and Misconceptions in Dracula"

Marinella Lorinczi, "The Technique of 'Reversal' in Dracula and The Lady of the Shroud"

Elizabeth Miller, "Filing for Divorce: Count Dracula vs Vlad Tepes"

John F. Crossen, "The Stake that Spoke: Vlad Dracula and a Medieval Gospel of Violence"

Radu Florescu, "What's in a name: Dracula or Vlad the Impaler?"

Valdine Clemens, "Dracula: The Reptilian Brain at the Fin de Siecle"

Amanda Fernbach, "Dracula's Decadent Fetish"

Katie Harse, "Stalwart Manhood: Failed Masculinity in Dracula"

Marion Muirhead, "Corruption itself becomes corrupt: Entropy in Dracula"

Kellie Donovan Wixson, "Dracula: An Anglo-Irish Novel"

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