![]() ![]() Staging Stoker's life against a grisly tableau of the myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siecle, Skal investigates Stoker's "transgendered imagination," unearthing Stoker's unpublished, sexually ambiguous poetry and his passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman - printed in full here for the very first time. ![]() Skal draws on a wealth of newly discovered documents to challenge much of our accepted wisdom about Dracula, Stoker and the late Victorian age. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who birthed an undying cultural icon, painting an astonishing portrait of the age in which Stoker was born - a time when death was no metaphor but a constant threat easily imagined as a character existing in flesh and blood. First published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and multifaceted afterlife - one rivaling even its immortal creation - yet Bram Stoker has remained a hovering spectre in this pervasive mythology. ![]()
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