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Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1st edition cover, Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 |
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There are 17 critical essays on Dracula.
Critical Essays on Dracula
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Critical Essay by Phyllis A. Roth
10,229 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following excerpt, Roth discusses Dracula as a seminal work of Gothic fiction and offers a psychoanalytical interpretation of the novel.
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Critical Essay by Alan P. Johnson
9,869 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Johnson explores the depiction of women in Dracula, contending that the novel “presents an incisive and sympathetic analysis of the frustration felt by women in late-nineteenth-century Britain.”
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Critical Essay by Ken Gelder
9,811 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Gelder elucidates various critical interpretations of Dracula.
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Critical Essay by Seymour Shuster
8,383 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Shuster claims that Dracula is a result of Stoker's long-repressed anxiety stemming from the author's childhood experience with doctors.
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Critical Essay by Gregory Castle
7,636 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Castle utilizes a historical approach to Dracula, focusing on Anglo-Irish relations in the late nineteenth century.
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Critical Essay by Clive Leatherdale
7,111 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Leatherdale considers Dracula as a valuable piece of social and political commentary, maintaining that the novel mirrors “the ideological strains and tensions that afflicted the Britain of Stoker's middle years.”
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Critical Essay by S. L. Varnado
6,435 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Varnado views Dracula as a dramatization of the “cosmic struggle between the opposing forces of darkness and light, of the sacred and the profane.”
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Critical Essay by Joseph S. Bierman
4,949 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Bierman contends that Dracula “mirrors Stoker's early childhood in that it is essentially a tale of medical detection of puzzling illnesses, of obscure diagnoses, and unusual cures in which the phenomenon of the ‘undead’ person is prominent.”
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Critical Essay by Judith Weissman
4,420 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Weissman perceives Dracula as a Victorian novel, asserting that the novel “is an extreme version of the stereotypically Victorian attitudes toward sexual roles.”
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Critical Essay by Joseph S. Bierman
3,237 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1972, Bierman finds parallels between Stoker's Dracula and two of the author's short stories: “How 7 Went Mad” and “The Wondrous Child.”
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Critical Essay by Bacil F. Kirtley
2,789 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Kirtley traces the origins of Dracula to Russian monastic chronicles and Slavic folklore.
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Critical Essay by Carrol L. Fry
1,910 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following essay, Fry maintains that the latent sexuality of Dracula is an important part of the novel's popular appeal.
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Critical Review by Spectator
433 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following review, the anonymous critic asserts that the strength of Dracula lies in Stoker's vivid imagination.
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