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It’s important to Remember that Dracula was written in Victorian England, so when the novel was first published people would have had different views on relationships and sex. One such view was that sex outside of marriage and displays of sexual behaviour in public (even flirting) were sinful. McNally & Florescu 1994, p.150: "Unfortunately, no correspondence between Vambery and Stoker can be found today. Moreover, a search through all of the professor's published writings fails to reveal any comments on Vlad, Dracula, or vampires." Bordin, Ruth Birgitta Anderson (1993). Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472103928. Stephanou, Aspasia (2014). Reading Vampire Gothic through Blood: Bloodlines. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137349224. OCLC 873725229. As the acting manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, Bram Stoker was a recognisable figure: he would greet evening guests, and served as assistant to the stage actor Henry Irving. In a letter to Walt Whitman, Stoker described his own temperament as "secretive to the world", but he nonetheless led a relatively public life. [1] Stoker supplemented his income from the theatre by writing romance and sensation novels, [2] [3] [a] and had published 18 books by his death in 1912. [5] Dracula was Stoker's seventh published book, following The Shoulder of Shasta (1895) and preceding Miss Betty (1898). [6] [b] Hall Caine, a close friend of Stoker's, wrote an obituary for him in The Daily Telegraph, saying that—besides his biography on Irving—Stoker wrote only "to sell" and "had no higher aims". [8] Influences Vlad III, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler

Stoker's detailed notes reveal he was well aware of the ethnic and geopolitical differences between the Roumanians/Wallachs/Wallachians, descendants of the Dacians, and the Székelys/Szeklers, allies of the Magyars or Hungarians, whose interests were opposed to that of the Wallachians. In the novel's original typewritten manuscript, the Count speaks of throwing off the "Austrian yoke", which corresponds to the Szekler political point of view. This expression is crossed out and replaced by "Hungarian yoke" (as appearing in the printed version), which matches the historical perspective of the Wallachians. Some take this to mean that Stoker opted for the Wallachian, not the Szekler interpretation, thus lending more consistency to his count's Romanian identity. Although not identical to Vlad III, the vampire is portrayed as one of the "Dracula race". [60] Screen portrayals [ edit ] Year Dracula is also said to be a "folio novel — which is ... a sibling to the epistolary novel, posed as letters collected and found by the reader or an editor." Alexander Chee, "When Horror Is the Truth-teller", Guernica, October 2, 2023 Miller 1996, p.2: "If Stoker knew as much about Vlad as some scholars claim (for example, that he impaled thousands of victims), then why is this information not used in the novel? This is a crucial question, when one considers how much insignificant detail Stoker did incorporate from his many sources."

Recent Novels". Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art. London. 79: 150–151. 31 July 1897. The novel is structured as a series of letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles, giving it an epistolary format. Hughes, William; Smith, Andrew, eds. (1998). Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic. Basingston: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-26840-5. Nandris, Grigore (1966). "The Historical Dracula: The Theme of His Legend in the Western and in the Eastern Literatures of Europe". Comparative Literature Studies. 3 (4): 367–396. ISSN 0010-4132. JSTOR 40245833. Irish folklore has been suggested as a possible influence on Stoker. Bob Curran, a lecturer in Celtic History and Folklore at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, suggests that Stoker may have drawn some inspiration for Dracula from an Irish vampire, Abhartach. [33] [34] Textual history Stoker's handwritten notes about the novel's characters Composition

Halberstam, Judith (1993). "Technologies of Monstrosity: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" ". Victorian Studies. 36 (3): 333–352. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 3828327. you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin, my bountiful wine-press for a while, and shall be later on my companion and my helper. You shall be avenged in turn, for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you have done. You have aided in thwarting me. Now you shall come to my call. When my brain says 'Come!’ to you, you shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. [40]Read more about fear of women’s sexuality in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. The Promise of Christian Salvation Dearden, Lizzie (20 May 2014). "Radu Florescu dead: Legacy of the Romanian 'Dracula professor' ". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021.