As modern readers, the names Dracula and Transylvania already have so many connotations for us. But it occurred to me that the readers of the time would have found them quite innocent as they read the first part of the book. So their reactions as it went on would have been different too.
RE: Dracula - the novel - brought up to date
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Yes. The diary reads like a travel journal and I dare say some readers were sucked in (pardon the pun) and didn't realise what they were reading to begin with.
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