Something in the blood: the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula
"A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological an...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed as a boy, and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that informs every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his lifelong acquaintance and romantic rival, Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed shadow side...a doppelgänger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in splendidly gothic detail."... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | V irst published in 1897, Dracula has had a long and
multifaceted afterlife—one rivaling even its immortal
creation; yet Bram Stoker has remained a hovering
specter in this pervasive mythology. In Something in the
Blood, David J. 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.
Just as in his celebrated histories The Monster Show
and Hollywood Gothic, Skal draws on a wealth of newly dis-
covered documents to challenge much of our accepted
wisdom about Dracula, Stoker, and the late Victorian
age. Staging Stoker’s life against a grisly tableau of the
myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siècle,
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.
Born into a middle-class Protestant family in Dub-
lin in “Black 47”—the year the potato famine swept the
country—Stoker s early years unfold alongside a parade
of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and
typhus, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and
the gnawing obsession with “bad blood” that colors Drac-
ula. While destined to become best known for his legend-
ary undead Count, Stoker would become a prolific writer,
critic, and theater producer, rubbing shoulders with Henry
Irving, Hall Caine, and Lady lane Wilde and her salon
set—including her fated-to-be-infamous son Oscar.
In this probing psychological and cultural portrait
of the man who brought us one of the most memora-
ble monsters in history, Skal reveals a lifetime spent
wrestling with the greatest questions of an era—a time
riddled by disease, competing attitudes toward sex and
gender, and unprecedented scientific innovation accom-
panied by rising paranoia and crises of faith. Stoker’s
battle resulted in a resilient modern folktale that contin-
ues to shock and enthrall; perhaps the most frightening
thing about Dracula, Skal writes, “is the strong probabil-
ity that it meant far less to Bram Stoker than it has come
to mean to us.”
Titel: Something in the blood
Autor: Skal, David J
Jahr: 2016
INTRODUCTION
Bram Stoker: The Final Curtain?
xiii
CHAPTER ONE
The Child That Went with the Fairies
1
CHAPTER TWO
Mesmeric Influences
45
CHAPTER THREE
Songs of Calamus, Songs of Sappho
85
CHAPTER FOUR
Engagements and Commitments
141
CHAPTER FIVE
Londoners
191
CHAPTER SIX
Pantomimes from Hell
239
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Isle of Men
273
CHAPTER EIGHT
A Land Beyond the Forest
305
CHAPTER NINE
Undead Oscar
379
CHAPTER TEN
Mortal Coils
423
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Curse ofDracula
499
Acknowledgments
581
Notes
585
Bibliography
615
Index
629
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