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This chapter is concerned with recovering Dracula’s narrative voice and tracing its evolution beginning with and following the publication of the novel. It shall proceed by tracing how history has shaped and morphed Dracula’s narrative voice in response to shifting moral, cultural, and technological stimuli. While this chapter aims less to record Dracula’s entire stage and film progeny, it does purpose to construct from it a basic outline that not only chronicles a rich history of narrativity but captures his changing complexity in relation to narrativity by exposing interrelationships that bear in mind relevant production history, as well as Dracula’s continuously evolving cultural conceptualization and visualization.
This chapter has been partially adapted and updated from the following publication: John Edgar Browning, “‘Our Draculas tell us who we were:’ Shadows of Exotic, Ethnic, and Sexualized Others,” in 2004–2005 Film & History CD-ROM Annual, ed. Peter C. Rollins, John E O’Connor, and Deborah A. Carmichael (Cleveland, OK: Film & History, 2005).
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Browning, J.E. (2017). In Search of Dracula’s Oracular History. In: Crișan, MM. (eds) Dracula. Palgrave Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63366-4_11
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