03277cam a2200505 i 4500 919591238 MeVbMML 20250715154201.0 160927s2016 nyuaf b 001 0beng 2016028093 9781631490101 (hardcover) 1631490109 (hardcover) 9781631493867 (paperback) DLC eng rda DLC TOH ERASA YDXCP BTCTA BDX GK8 OCLCF WYZ CPL ON8 LF3 TNH RIOSL OCLCO FM0 CZA OCLCO VP@ IGA OCLCO YDX OCLCO ISM OCL OCLCO AJM pcc e-uk--- BTSB CBYY BBHH B Skal, David J., author 17530 Something in the blood : the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula / David J. Skal First edition New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016] xvii, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Bram Stoker: the final curtain? -- The child that went with the fairies -- Mesmeric influences -- Songs of Calamus, songs of Sappho -- Engagements and commitments -- Londoners -- Pantomimes from Hell -- The Isle of Men -- A land beyond the forest -- Undead Oscar -- Mortal coils -- The curse of Dracula "A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralyzed as a boy, and his story unfolds against a backdrop of Victorian medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that informs every page of Dracula. Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his lifelong acquaintance and romantic rival, Oscar Wilde, who emerges as Stoker's repressed shadow side--a doppelgänger worthy of a Gothic novel. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker's passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his punishing work ethic, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in splendidly gothic detail."-- Provided by publisher Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. 17531 Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. fast 17531 1800-1899 fast 1709 Novelists, English 19th century Biography. 17532 Theatrical managers Great Britain Biography. 17533 Novelists, English. fast 17534 Theatrical managers. fast 17535 Great Britain. fast Biographies. lcgft 5221 Biographies. fast 5221 Biography. fast .b147316091 ddc BOOK 29803 29803 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ B 2024-06-27 21.95 0 B STOK 66293 2024-06-27 2024-06-27 BOOK 1