Approaches to Teaching Stoker's Dracula
Essays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all time

This volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the other. It also situates the novel among the kindred texts that have proliferated since its publication, from film and television to the growing genre of vampire novels.

Essays explore the novel in terms of medical humanities, contagion, and the gothic as well as ethnicity, identity, and race. Contributors analyze Dracula in the context of various ancient and modern cultural productions, including classical Indian aesthetics and African American vampire literature, and describe a broad range of classroom settings, including a technical university, a Hispanic-serving institution, and others.

This volume contains discussion of Fury of Dracula (board game; 1987); Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (video game); Penny Dreadful (television series); Dracula (television adaptation; 2013); Nosferatu (film; dir. F. W. Murnau; 1922); Dracula (film; dir. Tod Browning; 1931); Bram Stoker's Dracula (film; dir. Francis Ford Coppola; 1992); Blacula (film; dir. William Crain; 1972); The Castle of Otranto (novel; Horace Walpole, 1764); Frankenstein (novel; Mary Shelley, 1818); The Vampyre (novella; John Polidori, 1819); The Horror of Dracula (film; dir. Terence Fisher; 1958); "Leixlip Castle" (story; Charles Maturin, 1825); "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh" (story; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1838); "Ultor de Lacy" (story; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1861); Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale (novel; Charles Maturin, 1820); In a Glass Darkly (stories; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872); Reading in the Dark (novel; Seamus Deane, 1996); Mistaken (novel; Neil Jordan, 2011).

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Approaches to Teaching Stoker's Dracula
Essays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all time

This volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the other. It also situates the novel among the kindred texts that have proliferated since its publication, from film and television to the growing genre of vampire novels.

Essays explore the novel in terms of medical humanities, contagion, and the gothic as well as ethnicity, identity, and race. Contributors analyze Dracula in the context of various ancient and modern cultural productions, including classical Indian aesthetics and African American vampire literature, and describe a broad range of classroom settings, including a technical university, a Hispanic-serving institution, and others.

This volume contains discussion of Fury of Dracula (board game; 1987); Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (video game); Penny Dreadful (television series); Dracula (television adaptation; 2013); Nosferatu (film; dir. F. W. Murnau; 1922); Dracula (film; dir. Tod Browning; 1931); Bram Stoker's Dracula (film; dir. Francis Ford Coppola; 1992); Blacula (film; dir. William Crain; 1972); The Castle of Otranto (novel; Horace Walpole, 1764); Frankenstein (novel; Mary Shelley, 1818); The Vampyre (novella; John Polidori, 1819); The Horror of Dracula (film; dir. Terence Fisher; 1958); "Leixlip Castle" (story; Charles Maturin, 1825); "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh" (story; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1838); "Ultor de Lacy" (story; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1861); Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale (novel; Charles Maturin, 1820); In a Glass Darkly (stories; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872); Reading in the Dark (novel; Seamus Deane, 1996); Mistaken (novel; Neil Jordan, 2011).

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Approaches to Teaching Stoker's Dracula

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Essays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all time

This volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the other. It also situates the novel among the kindred texts that have proliferated since its publication, from film and television to the growing genre of vampire novels.

Essays explore the novel in terms of medical humanities, contagion, and the gothic as well as ethnicity, identity, and race. Contributors analyze Dracula in the context of various ancient and modern cultural productions, including classical Indian aesthetics and African American vampire literature, and describe a broad range of classroom settings, including a technical university, a Hispanic-serving institution, and others.

This volume contains discussion of Fury of Dracula (board game; 1987); Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (video game); Penny Dreadful (television series); Dracula (television adaptation; 2013); Nosferatu (film; dir. F. W. Murnau; 1922); Dracula (film; dir. Tod Browning; 1931); Bram Stoker's Dracula (film; dir. Francis Ford Coppola; 1992); Blacula (film; dir. William Crain; 1972); The Castle of Otranto (novel; Horace Walpole, 1764); Frankenstein (novel; Mary Shelley, 1818); The Vampyre (novella; John Polidori, 1819); The Horror of Dracula (film; dir. Terence Fisher; 1958); "Leixlip Castle" (story; Charles Maturin, 1825); "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh" (story; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1838); "Ultor de Lacy" (story; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1861); Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale (novel; Charles Maturin, 1820); In a Glass Darkly (stories; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872); Reading in the Dark (novel; Seamus Deane, 1996); Mistaken (novel; Neil Jordan, 2011).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603296786
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Publication date: 03/03/2025
Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part One: Materials

Editions and Translations

Critical Sources

Other Works by Stoker

Biographies

Classroom Guides

Additional Online Resources

Part Two: Approaches

Introduction, by William Thomas McBride

Critical Reading

Teaching Critical Theory with Dracula, by Ana Raquel Rojas

Navigating Dracula Criticism in the Classroom, by Agnes Andeweg

Teaching Dracula and the Professions: Work, Money, and Desire, by Joshua Gooch

The Gothic

Gothic Abjection in the Original Dracula, by Jerrold E. Hogle

Dracula and Irish Gothic Fiction, by Richard Haslam

Ethnic Studies

Dracula in a Latinx Context, by Lisa Nevárez

The Absence and Fear of Black People: Dracula in a Course on African American Vampire Fiction, by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

Why Fear Endures: Dracula in a Postmillennial Indian Classroom, by Srirupa Chatterjee

Medicine

Nervous Systems: Dracula and Fin-de-Siècle Gender Trouble, by Elizabeth Way

Contagion and Otherness: Dracula in the Age of COVID-19, by Ess Pokornowski

Dracula and the Medical Humanities, by William Hughes

Sexuality and Gender

Dracula's Fluidity: Beyond Queering the Vampire, by Jolene Zigarovich

Dracula and Masculinity, by Andrew Smith

"She Interest Me Too": Centering Women in Dracula, by Patrick R. O'Malley

Film and Television

The Dracula Megatext, by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Vampires in a Virtually Flipped Classroom, by Peter Gölz

New Media and Digital Humanities

Dracula in the Undergraduate Digital Classroom, by Christopher G. Diller

Dracula and New Media, by Zan Cammack

Exploring the Transmedia Dracula, by Shari Hodges Holt

Board Games and Study Abroad

Fury of Dracula: Board Games as Participatory Pedagogy, by David Smith

vEmpire 2.0: How to Teach Dracula: Where, When, and Why, by Dragan Kujundžić

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