"This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the legal system, his role as Irving's stage manager, and analyses his work in relation to these"-- Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the English common law / Terry Hale -- "Receptive Emotion": Stoker and Irving's collaboration, hagiography, self-fashioning / Rui Carvalho Homem -- The Impress of the visual and scenic arts on the fiction of Bram Stoker / Matthew Gibson -- "Sure we are all friends here!": Bram Stoker's ideal of friendship and community in the context of 19th century bio-social thought / Sabine Lenore Muller -- Communication technologies in Bram Stoker's Dracula: utopian or dystopian? / Anne Delong -- Tracking the unruly cadaver: Dracula and Victorian coroners' reports / Rebecca E. May -- Bram Stoker, geopolitics, and war / Jimmie E. Cain -- Black Eyes, white skin: an aristocratic or royal type in Bram Stoker's writings / Damian Shaw -- Bram Stoker's ambivalent response to the frontier and the American frontiersman / Carol Senf -- Coda: an unpublished letter from Stoker to Laurence Hutton |