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Just a heads up I’m noticing some confusion!

Lucy talks about two men.

There’s Arthur Holmwood, the “tall, handsome, curly-haired man” Mina asked about, who we have now found out also gets along very well with Lucy’s mum, and is rich and titled (nice). Lucy loves him a lot (she says it three times!)

Then there is also a different man, the doctor in charge of the lunatic asylum. The doctor would be considered a very eligible match (that’s what being a parti means). He is also handsome, also rich, and also from a good family. Young and responsible, he would be just the man for Mina if she wasn’t already happily engaged to Jonathan. Let’s hope nothing … happens … to our friend Jonathan on his Transylvanian travels 👀

Although Lucy likes both men, it’s Arthur who she loves. 👍

Also everyone picking up on the doctor having almost as many red flags as our beloved Count? Good eye! We will get to the asylum storyline soon, and it will be … interesting to see how y’all take it.

Also also, yes, this is the same asylum that backs onto Carfax, Dracula’s new digs.

Hold onto your butts, this rollercoaster’s just getting started!

Happy reading! - Q

2,353 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

Photo ID: a screenshot of a tumblr user’s tags reading: #dracula daily #bram stoker: accidentally write a horror comedy with queer main characters #dracula End ID

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Now I’m not coming after this person or naming them cause it’s not their fault at all but I am begging y’all to understand the queer allegories are not a mistake. They are not a coincidence.

This isn’t a fuddy old timey white man accidentally walking into making an incredibly queer book.

Bram Stoker was most likely a closeted queer man. He started writing Dracula a month after Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment, who was someone he knew personally. He and Walt Whitman wrote very homoerotic letters to each other. It was rumoured he had a massive crush on his boss, Henry Irving, who he wrote a biography on and who he heavily based Dracula’s appearance on (sans the hairy palms and pointy ears lol)

That is the context Dracula was written in. So when Mina and Lucy are galpalling it up, when Lucy’s three weed smoking boyfriends seem very close, when Dracula is jealous and protective of Jonathan and wants to stay up all night talking, please don’t run away with the idea that those are coincidences, or that Stoker was somehow blindly stumbling his way through this.

He knew. It’s on purpose.

2,864 notes - Posted May 10, 2022

A Defence of Dr John “Jack” Seward

Okay I’ve seen a lot of stuff around and I just want to set the record straight as someone who has done a lot of study in Victorian lit and this book in particular.

Dr Seward is not meant to be creepy.

It is vital that you understand this point. He is an equally viable suitor/lover to Lucy as Quincey or Arthur.

A lot of how he’s been read at the moment is being coloured by the odd 125 years that have past between when this book was first published and now.

Lucy has three suitors, Quincey the Cowboy, Arthur the Lord, and Jack the Doctor. They’re each set up to be equally valid and suitable choices for her. This is why she is so torn about choosing Arthur (i.e. English Stability) over Quincey (American Romance/Adventure) and Jack (Rationality, Intelligence, and - some of y’all won’t believe me when I say this - Compassion).

Jack Seward is odd. There’s no beating around the bush as far as that is concerned. He’s awkward, and nerdy, he has all the latest gadgets, and he finds it easier to talk to Lucy about his passions and interests - such as the very latest discoveries in psychology - rather than engage in social niceties and small talk. He almost sits on his silk top hat and he fidgets with a surgical knife when he’s nervous because it’s the only thing in his pocket. It’s very easy to read him as autistic, or otherwise neurodivergent in some way.

He is also, I cannot stress this enough, at the top of his field. What we see today as archaic and ableist practises were to Stoker’s contemporary reader some of the most compassionate and patient-first mental health work of it’s time. We’re going to learn more about the asylum as we go on, but it’s a very interesting case study of The Other.

The Other is what ultimately rules out Seward as a viable romantic candidate for Lucy. While he is English, “an excellent parti [marriage candidate], being handsome, well off, and of good birth,” while “he is a doctor and really clever,” while “he is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care,” he is ultimately too close to the strange and unusual, to the Other, to the mad, to be a good match for Lucy, an up and coming socialite.

She cannot choose Quincey because he is American (foreign and therefore also Other), and engages in lowly things like slang. He is an adventurous and Romantic (used in the classical rather than colloquial sense) Hero, and again ultimately unsuitable for our Lucy.

It is Arthur Holmwood (later The Honourable Lord Godalming), the English gentry that Lucy must court and ultimately wed. This is also why Arthur seems so much less fleshed out and boring compared to the other two suitors. The contemporary reader would immediately understand and fill in everything you needed to know about him from context. He is the most familiar figure to a British public, where the others are … well �� Other.

I also want to go over what Jack wrote today, because it’s not nearly as damning as people are making it out to be.

Miserable after being rejected by the woman he loves, Jack throws himself into his work instead. He records his diary on a phonograph, the very latest in Victorian tech, and relates that day’s studies on the patient he finds the most fascinating, R.M. Renfield. A lot of psych work at the time - and today! - revolves around the idea of understanding how a mental patient’s mind works by close analysis, hypothesis, and practical testing and observation. This is what Seward conducts.

Still emotionally unstable himself from the recent rejection, he reflects that there was a level of cruelty in how he treated Renfield that day, which he immediately regrets. He recognises that he went too far, and that it was his own fault, and was irresponsible and wrong as Renfield’s Doctor and as Head of the asylum.

He confesses that he wanted to “keep him to the point of his madness” (i.e. encourage or even worsen Renfield’s condition in order to study it further) something that under normal circumstances would be “a thing which I avoid with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.”

This isn’t a mad scientist gleefully torturing people he considers subhuman, this is a Doctor who cares deeply about his patients and feels terrible his own personal emotional distress led him to hurt rather than to heal.

He let emotion get the better of him, something he considers selfish and indulgent, and he reflects that a selfish man is as much a danger to the people around him as to himself. He resolves to work from a place of duty, from a place which prioritises the well-being of his patients, from now on, and to be more conscientious and aware of his actions and how they affect others in the future.

That is the musings of a Good Doctor! And a Good Man! He is working from a 19th Century understanding of what that means, but that does not minimise the intent and spirit of his character!

Please stop writing Seward off as the creepy asylum man. He is so much more than that, and more than an equal match to Quincey and Arthur.

3,537 notes - Posted May 26, 2022

I love how Dracula Daily has given me a new perspective on Lucy. It’s completely changed my view of her.

It’s easy to dismiss Lucy as a shallow, golden child socialite to be, but now, reading the book in chronological order (and with the rest of Tumblr following along) I can’t read this latest letter without a great twinge of sadness, where before I largely dismissed it as idle chat.

The latest we heard from Lucy in her private diary was about how stressed and scared she is, how she feels isolated, how she feels the need to quiet people’s fears about her health and be fun and jolly, while in reality she is (literally and figuratively) drained.

And now, five days later, she writes to Mina after receiving her best friend’s glowing letter about how happy and excited she is to finally be married to Jonathan and their hopes for the future.

So Lucy puts on a brave face! She doesn’t tell Mina anything. What could Mina do anyway? All the way across the ocean? Better not to worry her. Yes I’m quite well again! No more sleepwalking for me! Definitely not :)

You and Jonathan should come back home soon! For Jonathan’s sake! (Please)

With this new lens, we read between the lines, and they paint a dreadfully lonely and terrifying picture.

3,905 notes - Posted August 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

For all my Dracula Daily folks who might not read 19th Century lit on the regular “making a hasty toilet” means like … “I freshened up quickly before dinner because I just spent hours and hours on a dusty road and feel kind of gross” not “I am telling you explicitly that I took a shit and was hasty about it”

24,136 notes - Posted May 6, 2022

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