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- Title
First‐Person Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula.
- Authors
McCormack, Jeff Fields
- Abstract
The article explores author Bram Stoker's mastery of the epistolary form of writing in his 1897 vampiric horror novel "Dracula." It analyzes Stoker's prose works to elicit sympathy of audience for the character Mina, cause of destructive nature of epistolary silence using Mina's emotional diary entries, horrors of Castle Dracula and art of gothic horror illustrated in the journal of protagonist Jonathan Harker, and perversion of beauty by Count Dracula based on his immortality.
- Subjects
DRACULA (Book : Stoker); EPISTOLARY poetry; HORROR tales; PROSE poems; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); STOKER, Bram, 1847-1912; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2023, Vol 56, Issue 1, p191
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/jpcu.13189