Riassunto:
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker,
featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count
Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres
including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel
and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary
novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters.
Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such
as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and
conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism,
postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent
the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of
vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical
and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st
centuries.