Author Listing. Science or Séance?: Late-Victorian Science and Dracula's Epistolary Structure. Named Best of the Web for Dracula by Shmoop Dark speculation into human identity was not new to the Victorians.
The late-nineteenth century rise of criminology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology and degeneration theory articulated anxieties over the possibility of atavistic intrusions into the empirical world, which fuelled popular literature such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr, Jekyll and Mr.