About the Author

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) is an Anglo-Irish novelist best known for Dracula (1897).

Reviews

"The entire text of Dracula is presented in the postcolonial edition. The book contains 528 footnotes illuminating the text. Many of the notes shed light on details of Victorian England, as well as technology, and the novels continual efforts to show Western civilization as technologically advanced and, therefore, superior to Eastern Europe and the Eastern or Oriental countries. The book also points out and corrects several errors in earlier editions of Dracula that have often unknowingly been perpetuated as well as false information that other editors have provided. Overall, the main purpose has been to avoid any justification or enhancement of Stokers Othering of Romania and Transylvania (Introduction, p. xxvii). To me, the greatest strength of this edition is the simple history lesson it provides into Romania and what it really was like in the 1890s. Photographs are provided showing hotels in Romania at the time that were up to par with other fine European hotels. Much of the technology in the novel is treated as if it solely belongs to the West, ranging from shorthand to photography, yet the editors of this edition show that photography in Romania had been prominent and advanced decades earlier and shorthand was regularly used." -- Tyler Tichelaar, PhD