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Transylvania
Dracula AND Stoker AND Gothic
"epistolary novels"
Victorian AND (bloodline OR ancestry OR kinship)
Victorian AND (feminism OR motherhood OR cult of domesticity)
Victorian AND (horror OR gothic OR vampire)
Victorian AND (madness or mental health)

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Dracula
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Vampires in literature
Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
Treatment of madness

P -- Language and Literature
    PR -- English Literature
              PR 451 - (469)  By Period - 19th Century
               PR(951) - 981 Folk literature
               PR 1330 Diaries
               PR 1341-1349 Letters
               PR 3991-5990 19th century, 1770/1800-1890-1900