Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre.ĭracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle.
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