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I have seen some writing about how Dracula was partly written as a reaction to Oscar Wilde’s trial and was wondering about your thoughts on this?

So... we know now that Stoker had begun to take notes for Dracula (including the rudimentary outlines of one of the novel's iconic homoerotic scenes) as early as 1890s, five years before Wilde's trial. We have the dates in his notes. The idea that Dracula was written solely in reaction to the Wilde trial was popularized by Talia Schaffer in her 1994 essay "A Wilde Desire Overtook Me: The Homoerotic History of Dracula," in which she made a good hypothesis as to what might have been a generative historical moment for Dracula before scholars had ready access to his personal papers. I think because of the impact of her (very thorough) research, the influence of Wilde on Stoker sometimes gets overplayed... a little.

Overall though, at this point, I think it would be foolhardy to deny that Wilde influenced Dracula at all. Stoker was a frequent guest at the house of Wilde's family during the 1870s before he left for London to work with Henry Irving. He made allusions to Wilde's father in his first published novel (The Snake's Pass) and there has been some speculation by Paul Murray that Lady Wilde's folkloric research might have helped to inspire elements of his supernatural fiction in general. Stoker also stole Oscar Wilde's girlfriend in 1878, swooping in to marry renowned Dublin beauty Florence Balcombe who had been seeing Wilde romantically for two years. This happened quickly enough that Florence still needed to return tokens and letters to Oscar following her marriage, including the gift of a golden crucifix that he had given to her the prior Christmas. So yeah. Bram and Oscar were close acquaintances who had a not insignificant amount of personal drama between them in which a key object was a crucifix. I don't think you can fail to see how there might be something there.

And while we do not have anything 100% concrete as regards Stoker's sexuality and we don't know what his personal emotions about Wilde's trial were (he was remarkably silent about the event at the time, despite his friends and associates being among Wilde's staunch supporters), I think it is very hard in the year 2022 to assert that Bram Stoker was unquestionably heterosexual. Stoker famously wrote to Walt Whitman and discussed his wishes for a man to be "father, and brother and wife to his soul." He recounted rapturously falling into hysterics and becoming "unmanned" when Henry Irving read poetry at him, and however you read his relationship to the actor it was definitely the one that dominated his life. He wrote of himself in the one extant personal journal of his we have that he felt he had "a woman's heart." His non-Dracula work includes a non-fiction book about "Imposters" that seems to include disproportionate amount of historical figures that would register to modern readers as trans. While none of these stand as conclusive evidence, the fact of the matter is that when you are looking to queer history in the 1890s, you will not always find conclusive evidence.

My take is that while the Wilde trial was not the inspiration for Dracula, I do not think you can look to Stoker's biography and the contents of Dracula without seeing the influence of Bram's probable queerness. As a queer person existing in the 1890s, he would have been influenced by the Wilde trial. Full stop. I will say that I think it is a little short-sighted to frame Dracula as being just about the Wilde trial or even predominantly about the Wilde trial when there are so very many other aspects of Bram's life and the historical moment that have clearly left their impression on the text, but at this point, I am willing to say that the Wilde trial is a part of the fabric that makes up Dracula.

[As always, I confess to being a little bit behind the cutting edge of Stoker scholarship these days, and if somebody more plugged in to works regarding this since 2016ish has cause to correct me, please do so. I understand that David J. Skal's biography takes the stance that Wilde and Dracula are very much interrelated, but I have yet to read it. I also confess to being an academic who knows through Wilde mostly through Stoker, so people whose primary expertise is with Wilde may have insights that I am missing.]

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