(H/B) THE NEW ANNOTATED DRACULA

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Cause for international celebration-the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades.
In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker's contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and the wilds of Transylvania, Klinger's notes illuminate every aspect of this haunting narrative (including a detailed examination of the original typescript of Dracula, with its shockingly different ending, previously unavailable to scholars). Klinger investigates the many subtexts of the original narrative-from masochistic, necrophilic, homoerotic, "dentophilic," and even heterosexual implications of the story to its political, economic, feminist, psychological, and historical threads. Employing the superb literary detective skills for which he has become famous, Klinger mines this 1897 classic for nuggets that will surprise even the most die-hard Dracula fans and introduce the vampire-prince to a new generation of readers. (From the publisher)

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EDITOR'S PREFACE
INTRODUCTION by Neil Gailman
THE CONTEXT OF DRACULA
PART I: THE TEXT OF DRACULA
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
CHAPT. 1 - 27
Appendix 1: DRACULA'S GUEST
Appendix 2: THE DATING OF DRACULA
Appendix 3: THE CHRONOLOGY OF DRACULA
Appendix 4: A WHITBY GLOSSARY
PART II: CONSIDERING THE COUNT
DRACULA AFTER STOKER: Fictional Accounts of the Count
SEX, LIES, AND BLOOD: Dracula in Academia
THE PUBLIC LIFE OF DRACULA: Dracula on Stage and Screen
DRACULA'S FAMILY TREE
THE FRIENDS OF DRACULA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTUAL SOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS