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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Skal, David J., author.     Subjects     Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.     Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.     Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Skal, David J., author.       by title:      Something in the blo...         MARC Display

Something in the blood : the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula / David J. Skal. by Skal, David J., author. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2016. Subjects Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.   Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.   Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Biography. ISBN:  9781631490101 (hardcover) : Description:  xvii, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Bram Stoker: the final curtain? -- The child that went with the fairies -- Mesmeric influences -- Songs of Calamus, songs of Sappho -- Engagements and commitments -- Londoners -- Pantomimes from Hell -- The Isle of Men -- A land beyond the forest -- Undead Oscar -- Mortal coils -- The curse of Dracula. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Biography B Stoker Sk Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hana P/S Library Adult Biography B Stoker Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 823.8 Stoker Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 823.8 Stoker Sk Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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