Join us for our next Book Club meeting, hosted by Department of English faculty, and enjoy conversation about some of the greatest novels of all time. The featured books are a mix of the most popular titles selected by more than one hundred Department of English alumni in our “Top Ten Book List” survey, along with some faculty favorites. Titles are available from your local library digital books program or your local book stores.
Book
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Few writers have created works so powerful as to generate modern myths, but Bram Stoker's Dracula has eclipsed all previous vampire stories and inspired countless further novels, plays, films, operas, ballets, TV shows, video games, graphic narratives and even a breakfast cereal.
Those who know the story from later versions are often surprised by the novel's narrative form, though. The story is filtered through a variety of verbal media: journals, letters, newspaper stories, professional reports, recorded dictation and typewritten transcriptions. Why? So much of Dracula also draws on religious traditions, especially Catholic sacraments and sacramentals like crosses, holy water and the host. The undead immortality of the vampire is also a perversion of the eternal life promised through Christ's sacrificial blood.
Faculty Hosts
- Hannibal Hamlin, Professor, Department of English
- Karen Winstead, Professor, Department of English
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning to participate in this event, please contact Alex Stacklane at stacklane.1@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the University will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
