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Novel Context: Dracula Bruit Media
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Novel Context is a monthly podcast that unpacks influential books to understand the story the author was really telling, how the culture and politics of that time influenced it, and how that story still shapes us today.
This season explores the novel Dracula: who Bram Stoker was, his inspirations for Count Dracula and the origins of vampires, and surprising ways this book haunts us 125 years after being published.
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1. Transylvania
Welcome to Novel Context, bi-weekly podcast that unpacks influential books to understand the story the author was really telling, how the culture and politics of that time influenced it, and how that story still shapes us today.
On this episode, we begin our season long exploration of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. We'll be walking through Jonathan Harker's haunted trip to Transylvania, and then unpack the origins of Castle Dracula, The Count's the often ignored power over dreams and reality, and we'll unmask the historical figure Dracula was really based on.