Sybarite you certainly started an interesting and lively discussion with your original post. Were you quoting a literary analysis or thesis, et. al.? Dracula, like Frankenstein lends itself to many facets of literary discussion and personal reactions. IMHO books like these can never be read too many times or discussed too often.
[An aside: THE ANNOTATED DRACULA and IN SEARCH OF DRACULA are monumental sources for line by line analysis, definitions, meaning of allusions and historical placement for anyone seriously studying one of the most popular books ever written in the English language.]
Two contemporary books re: Dracula are THE DRACULA DOSSIER and THE HISTORIAN each very different.
Hi Gerbam, thanks for your comments.
No quoting. I've studied sexual history (including attitudes) over the years (plus being familiar with erotica, partly as a writer of that genre myself) and, when reading the book, such an analysis just leapt off the page. After I'd finished reading – and reached my own conclusions – I did a little more digging and discovered that my analysis is pretty much a classic one. The only thing that I looked up before writing my review was what other vampire novels had been published before (third paragraph).