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Genre/Form: | Manuscripts Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Quelle |
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Named Person: | Bram Stoker; Bram Stoker; Bram Stoker; Bram Stoker; Bram Stoker; Bram Stoker |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bram Stoker; Robert Eighteen-Bisang; Elizabeth Russell Miller |
ISBN: | 9780786434107 0786434104 9780786477302 078647730X |
OCLC Number: | 265660512 |
Description: | ix, 331 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Bram Stoker's Original Foundation Notes & Data for His "Dracula" -- Handwritten notes on the plot -- Handwritten research notes ("Dracula Notes, etc.") -- Typed research notes ("Dracula Notes, etc.") -- The myth of Dracula -- The Rosenbach page numbers -- Bram Stoker: a brief biography -- Bram Stoker: a brief bibliography -- Bram Stoker's nonfiction sources for "Dracula" -- "Vampire" from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1888) -- Possible literary influences -- Bram Stoker's library -- Dracula: the novel vs. the notes -- Dracula: teh novel we could have read -- Index of Bram Stoker's original notes (as transcribed) -- Index of editors' annotations. |
Responsibility: | Bram Stoker ; annotated and transcribed by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller ; foreword by Michael Barsanti. |
Abstract:
Bram Stoker's initial notes and outlines for his landmark horror novel "Dracula" were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1913 and eventually made their way to the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. This work reproduces the handwritten notes both in facsimile and in annotated transcription. It also includes Stoker's typewritten notes.
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