The Man is a 1905 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker, best known for Dracula. A typical Gothic novel, it features horror and romance. The Man has also been published as The Gates of Life
"Bram Stoker, the master of horror and dark mind behind the most famous vampire novel in history--Dracula--brings us to the edge of our chairs again with a tale of a different variety.
The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
BRAM STOKER Born in Dublin in 1847 , Abraham Stoker was a sickly , bedridden child , whose mother entertained him with stories of the macabre . While his health improved , and he eventually became an athlete at Trinity College , Stoker ...
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By contrast, the supporters of `King Romance', as the critic, Andrew Lang, put it, aimed to write for men and to reclaim the territory of the English novel.5 Stoker's own recorded comments on his `outdoor' books, as he termed them, ...
Barbara Belford tells the story of Stoker the hidden man. On the surface: the very model of Victorian modesty, reserve, and duty, the devoted husband and father.
Barbara Belford tells the story of Stoker the hidden man. On the surface: the very model of Victorian modesty, reserve, and duty, the devoted husband and father.
However, as the twelve essays in this volume demonstrate, Stoker's work blends the Gothic with the discourses of politics, sexuality, medicine and national identity to produce texts that may be read by a variety of critical methodologies.
Bram Stoker: A Bibliography
The first full-scale biography of the complex man known today as the author of Dracula, but who was famous in his own time as the innovative manager of London's Lyceum...
Traces Stoker's life, examines his horror stories, fairy tales, and romances, and discusses his themes and writing style
The gothic horror novel tells the story of Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may spread the undead curse, "Dracula" has had a great impact on many literary genres including vampire literature, horror ...
Despite his vampire creation, Dracula, being world-famous, and in spite of a host of academic studies of the novel in which this vampire first appeared, Bram Stoker himself remains a figure shrouded in darkness, and his other writings are ...
Since a number of these works are decidedly not Gothic, the study puts his Gothic novels and short stories into the perspective of everything that he wrote.
In the following analysis will be discussed how the incidents in the novel affect and change both the characters of Jonathan and Mina and their relationship to each other.
The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
... Dracula's Crypt, p. 52. Cannon Schmitt, 'Mother Dracula: Orientalism, Degeneration, and Anglo-Irish National Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle', Bucknell Review 38.1 (1994), pp. 25–43, pp. 34 and 37. Valente, Dracula's Crypt, pp. 51–2 ...