Instructor: Nina Auerbach
Fall, 2010

The recommended edition of Dracula is the Norton Critical edition (1996) and Elizabeth Kostova’s novel The Historian (2005), which are available for purchase in the museum shop (please mention your membership to receive a discounted price).

September 15 – The beginning: crossing into the East

Movie crossings: Murnau’s Nosferatu, Tod Browning’s American Dracula (with Bela Lugosi).

29 – Jonathan as Foreigner, pp. 1-57 (Jonathan’s diary> Mina
and Lucy’s letters)

Movie captives: Murnau’s Nosferatu, Browning’s American Dracula (Bela Lugosi).

October 13 – Whitby and Lucy, pp. 57-193 (Through Lucy’s staking)

Movie stakings: Hammer’s Dracula has Risen from the Grave; Badham’s Dracula (with Frank Langella) and Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (with Gary Oldman).

27 – London and Mina, pp. 193-273 (to chap 23). Unclean Mina.

Cleansing romances with movie vampires: Nosferatu. Badham’s Dracula (with Frank Langella) and Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (with Gary Oldman).

November 10 – Return to the East and conquest.

Movie conquest: Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark.