Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction

Subjects:

• Literature » Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Literature » English Literature

Reviews:

• Although critics have frequently noted Stoker's references to technology in Dracula, Senf's volume is the first full-length study on this subject; and, although she begins with Dracula, most of Senf's study focuses on Stoker's less-known fiction....Senf's book represents a valuable study of an important but neglected author....Senf carefully grounds her work in the scholarship of Stoker and the gothic. The book is clearly written and provides helpful plot summaries of Stoker's more obscure work....Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
  —Choice July/August 2003

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Gothic Monster vs. Modern Science in Dracula
• Stoker's Life: The Facts Behind the Fiction in The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, A Glimpse of America, Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, and Famous Impostors
• Reservations about Science, Popular Egyptology, and the Power of the Natural World in The Jewel of Seven Stars
• Technological Salvation in The Snake's Pass, The Mystery of the Sea, Lady Athlyne, The Lady of the Shroud, and The Lair of the White Worm
• The Place of Science in Stoker's Fiction and the Place of Science Fiction in the Stoker Oeuvre
• Works Cited
• Index