ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Here’s What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel. Abraham Stoker (1845-1912) the Irish writer who wrote the classic horror story ‘Dracula’ in 1897.

Detailed explanation-2: -Here’s What We Know About the Story Behind the Novel. Abraham Stoker (1845-1912) the Irish writer who wrote the classic horror story ‘Dracula’ in 1897.

Detailed explanation-3: -Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu popularised the female vampire in his tale of terror Carmilla (1872), Stoker took the lordly fiend to new heights in Dracula (1897) and over the course of the last 100 years novelists, poets, playwrights, artists, movie makers and screenwriters have returned obsessively to vampires.

Detailed explanation-4: -Though Dracula may seem like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an even more grotesque taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or-as he is better known-Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes), a name he earned for his favorite way of dispensing with his enemies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Stoker would go on to publish 17 novels in all, but it was his 1897 novel Dracula that eventually earned him literary fame and became known as a masterpiece of Victorian-era Gothic literature.