![]() ![]() This critical oversight is clear in the most comprehensive survey of literary criticism published in the last century, the MLA International Bibliography. Still, scholars paid little attention to the world's most famous vampire. The novel was successful enough on its original publication in 1897, and with each passing decade the Transylvanian Count became more familiar to the world at large. Unlike most other canonical works of literature, Dracula was nearly a century old before it was taken seriously by literary critics. This contribution to the Critical Insights series collects a number of critical studies with the aim of correcting the long neglect of the novel. But while the cultural myth is omnipresent, the original novel has too often been ignored. Bram Stoker, the Irish civil servantturned-theatrical manager, gave the world one of the great myths of the modem era. As I type this prefatory note, September is changing into October by month's end, Dracula masks and vampire decorations will be everywhere. ![]()
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