His Master’s Voice: Sound Devices in Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Maria Parrino

“…From Renfield’s calling in of the vampire (a master who needs a servant to be welcomed in), to Dracula’s attempt at mastering oral English in order to conceal his foreignness, the novel proves to be an important example of how literature deals with sound devices.…”
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Dracula : mécanique des fluides et roman des angoisses circulatoires by Maël Baussand

“…Indeed, anxious Victorian concerns persisting about different types of flow lead us to question the concrete visibility of sexual bodily fluids (sperm, menses and milk) in the novel. This study will hence discuss how Stoker’s ”fluid mechanics” conveys an ”aesthetics of trouble”, and how its overflowing serves a cathartic purpose with a direct link to the writing of female protagonists.  …”
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