Dracula: complete, authoritative text with biographical, historical, and cultural contexts, critical history, and essays from contemporary critical perspectives

Part I. Dracula: the complete text in cultural context : Introduction : Biographical and historical contexts

The complete text (1897)

Part II. Dracula in cultural context : Cultural illustrations and documents : Ireland and the wider empire : Cartoons: "The Irish vampire" (1885) and "The English vampire" (1885) ; The Kukri knife and the Indian Rebellion of 1957 ; The Lesbian vampire and its influence on Bram Stoker : From Carmilla (1872) / J. Sheridan Le Fanu ; "Dracula's guest" (1914) ; Criminal anthropology, the discourse of degeneration, and aberrant sexuality : From Criminal man (1911) / Cesare Lombroso ; From Degeneration (1892) / Max Nordau ; From Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexual instinct: a medico-legal study (1893) / Richard von Krafft-Ebing ; The new woman: new options for female identity : From The odd women (1893) / George Gissing ; From The typewriter girl (1897) / Olive Pratt Rayner (Grant Allen)

Part III. Dracula: a case study in contemporary criticism : A critical history of Dracula

Cultural criticism and Dracula : What is cultural criticism? ; Cultural criticism: a selected bibliography ; A cultural perspective : Undead images, images of the undead: Dracula on film / Leland Monk

Psychoanalytic criticism and Dracula : What is psychoanalytic criticism? ; Psychoanalytic criticism: a selected bibliography ; A psychoanalytic perspective : "The little children can be bitten": a hunger for Dracula / Dennis Foster

Gender criticism and Dracula : What is gender criticism? ; Gender criticism: a selected bibliography ; A gender studies perspective : Corruption of the blood and degeneration of the race: Dracula and policing the borders of gender / Sos Eltis

Queer theory and Dracula : What is queer theory? ; Queer theory: a selected bibliography ; A queer perspective : Building castles in the air: female intimacy and generative queerness in Dracula / Renée Fox

Postcolonial criticism and Dracula : What is postcolonial criticism? ; Postcolonial criticism: a selected bibliography ; A postcolonial perspective : In transit: the passage to empire in Stoker's Dracula

Combining critical perspectives on Dracula : Combining perspectives : Stoker's vampire and the vicissitudes of biopower / Joseph Valente

Appendix : Selected filmography / compiled by Leland Monk

Glossary of critical and theoretical terms.