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    Abraham Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some key points about Stoker include: - He was born in 1847 and died in 1912 in Dublin, Ireland. - He is most famous for his 1897 novel Dracula, a Gothic horror story set in late 19th century England that combines romance, thriller and horror elements. - Dracula uses an epistolary style, told through a series of letters and diary entries from characters like Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray that add realism to the supernatural story.

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    Abraham Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some key points about Stoker include: - He was born in 1847 and died in 1912 in Dublin, Ireland. - He is most famous for his 1897 novel Dracula, a Gothic horror story set in late 19th century England that combines romance, thriller and horror elements. - Dracula uses an epistolary style, told through a series of letters and diary entries from characters like Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray that add realism to the supernatural story.

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    Abraham Stoker

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    Abraham Stoker was an Irish author best known for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some key points about Stoker include: - He was born in 1847 and died in 1912 in Dublin, Ireland. - He is most famous for his 1897 novel Dracula, a Gothic horror story set in late 19th century England that combines romance, thriller and horror elements. - Dracula uses an epistolary style, told through a series of letters and diary entries from characters like Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray that add realism to the supernatural story.

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    Abraham Stoker

    1847 - 1912
    Biography
    Most relevant information about his life
    Bram Stoker at Trinity College Bram Stoker and Henry Irving
    ROMANTICISM

    • Abrupt nature

    • Description of exotic locations

    • Isolation

    • Women idealization Association to


    • Imagination

    • Creativity
    a movement
    • Passion

    • Spiritual and supernatural events

    • Exoticism and return to the past


    EPISTOLARY STYLE

    Traits of his
    GOTHIC ROMANCES

    style FICTION GENRE

    HISTORICAL ROMANCE
    EPISTOLARY STYLE
    make the novel more realistic using
    letters
    FICTION GENRE HISTORICAL ROMANCE
    focused on what we imagine that can This explores how relationships might
    happen in the future develop in other times
    GOTHIC ROMANCES
    mix many styles such as romance,
    thriller, horror, etc.
    Main works
    DRACULA

    - Gothic novel

    - It is based in reality and the


    myths about Western Europe

    - Scenarios of London in the late


    19th century
    MAIN CHARACTERS

    Drácula Jonathan Harker Mina Murray Lucy Westerna Doctor van Helsing
    Literary analysis Form
    Epistolary
    - Horror novel
    - Jonathan diary
    - Topics: death, love, social
    decadence, science, etc. - Letters by the other characters

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