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1. rosenbach.org › blog › the-science-of-bram-stokersThe Science of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – The Rosenbach

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   Nov 3, 2017 · The Science of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Sara Davis November 3, 2017. Since Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science opened on Friday the 13th of October, I’ve fielded a few questions from surprised visitors: Dracula, really? It’s not difficult to see the connection between Frankenstein and the scientific theme of our new ...

2. lithub.com › on-the-victorian-science-andOn the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s

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   Feb 18, 2022 · With the advantage of hindsight and science, we now under­stand vampire panics as moments in human history when the inexorable power of superstition collided with emerging medical science. Five years after Mercy Brown’s exhumation, when Bram Stoker published Dracula, the book was more than a horror story.

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   Why is Dracula a cultural document?

   • The Mixed Messages of Stoker's Dracula to the novel's significance as a cultural document. I shall argue that valorizing the rationalistic authority conventionally associated with scientific thought. Stoker's narrative proclaims the power of belief, faith, and imagination, but the plot makes these dependent on logic,

   Saved by Science? The Mixed Messages of Stoker's Dracula

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   How does Dracula tell a story?

   • Dracula tells its story through journal entries, diaries, letters, and telegrams written by the novel’s main characters. In form it is, fundamentally, an epistolary novel, though the presence of telegrams and a “ phonograph diary” shows the manner in which Stoker was incorporating communications technologies of his time.

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   What are some examples of Science in Dracula?

   • Credit: Kelly & Massa Photography. There are many more examples of science—both fiction and fact—in Dracula: sleepwalking, viruses, theories of degeneration. You can explore them in our exhibition, or check out any of our upcoming programs dedicated to Bram Stoker and his literary legend.

   The Science of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – The Rosenbach

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   Why is Dracula called Drac?

   • In modern Romanian, drac has evolved to mean “devil.” Stoker is thought to have picked the name Dracula after reading a book that revealed to him this modern translation. His notes include the annotation “in Wallachian language means DEVIL,” written in response to drac. The name, however, is not all Dracula and Vlad III have in common.

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4. www.britannica.com › topic › Dracula-novelDracula (novel by Bram Stoker) | Summary, Characters ...

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   May 9, 2024 · The vibrancy and complexity of Stoker’s Dracula has provoked a vast range of interpretations and analysis by scholars and critics. Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. A popular theory among critics is that the character Count Dracula is based on the infamously barbaric Vlad III, better known as Vlad the Impaler. Vlad was born in Transylvania ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › DraculaDracula - Wikipedia

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   Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. An epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.

   • Author: Bram Stoker

   • Publish Year: 1897

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7. www.sparknotes.com › lit › draculaDracula: Historical Context Essay: Late Victorian Era Science ...

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   Explanation of how real-world social and political events influenced Bram Stoker and shaped the ideas and characters in Dracula.

8. www.jstor.org › stable › 40754893Saved by Science? The Mixed Messages of Stoker's Dracula

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   while Dracula clearly has a place among popular late Victorian reactions against materialist science, Stoker's narrative is also heavily invested in valorizing the rationalistic authority conventionally associated with scientific thought. Stoker's narrative proclaims the power of belief,

9. time.com › 5411826The Real History That Went Into Bram Stoker's Dracula | TIME

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   Oct 2, 2018 · Voivode (Dracula) Dracula in Wallachian language means DEVIL. Wallachians were accustomed to give it as a surname to any person who rendered himself conspicuous either by courage, cruel actions,...