Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dracula criticism from the nineteenth to the twentieth century -- The life and writings of Bram Stoker -- Twenty-first-century criticism of Stoker's novel -- CHAPTER ONE: Psychoanalysis and Psychobiography: The Troubled Unconsciousness of Dracula -- Sexual guilt, taboo and the Oedipal -- Psychobiography -- Child sexual abuse -- Divided psyches and abjected bodies -- CHAPTER TWO: Medicine, Mind and Body: The Physiological Study of Dracula -- The physiology of the mind -- The multiple meanings of blood -- Sexuality, infection and the obsessive consumer -- Scientific criminology -- Vampires and the definition of deviance -- CHAPTER THREE: Invasion and Empire: The Racial and Colonial Politics of Dracula -- The conquest of the West -- Anti-Semitism in Stoker's fiction -- Transylvanian superstitions and Balkan politics -- Anglo-Saxon alliances -- CHAPTER FOUR: Landlords and Disputed Territories: Dracula and Irish Studies -- The place of Dracula in Irish Studies -- The Anglo-Irish interpretation -- The demons of Irish history -- CHAPTER FIVE: Assertive Women and Gay Men: Gender Studies and Dracula -- Conscious and unconscious sexualities -- The ambivalent sexual morality of the vampire hunters -- The New Woman -- The homosocial and the homosexual -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
