To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is ""nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance."" In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specificall...

To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is ""nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance."" In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns.