It’s Dracula Day!

It’s Dracula Day (May 26!)

In honor of the day, here’s a short bibliography of secondary sources discussing legal themes and issues related to Bram Stoker’s best known work, Dracula (1897).

Carpi, Daniela, A Biojuridical Reading of Dracula, 6 Polemos 169-182 (September 2012).

Gaines, Jane M., Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (University of North Carolina Press, 1991). Chapter 6: Dracula and the Right of Publicity.

McGillivray, Anne, “What Sort of Grim Adventure Was It On Which I Had Embarked?”: Lawyers, Vampires and the Melancholy of Law, 4 Gothic Studies 116-132 (2002).

Montalbano, Margaret, From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, in A Companion To Literature and Film (Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo, eds., Blackwell, 2004).

Shahinyan, Diana Louis, “That Which Mere Modernity Cannot Kill”: The Evolution of Legal Professionalism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 23 Journal of Victorian Culture 119-136 (January 2018).