Presents a collection of critical essays on Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula," and includes a chronology of the author's life and works along with bibliography and notes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Suddenly sexual women in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Phillis A. Roth -- Dracula : the unseen face in the mirror / Carol A. Senf -- Different from writing : Dracula in 1897 / Geoffrey Wall -- Kiss me with those red lips : gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Christopher Craft -- A vampire in the mirror : the sexuality of Dracula / John Allen Stevenson -- Terrors of the night : Dracula and "degeneration" in the late nineteenth century / Daniel Pick -- Purity and danger : Dracula, the urban gothic, and the late Victorian degeneracy crisis / Kathleen L. Spencer -- Vampiric typewriting : Dracula and its media / Jennifer Wicke -- The rhetoric of reform in Stoker's Dracula : depravity, decline, and the fin-de-siècle "residuum" / Laura Sagolla Croley -- Dracula : a vampire of our own / Nina Auerbach.