1. F.R. Leavis, The Great Tradition. George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad [1948] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 10.
2. Ibid., but cf. F.R. and Q.D. Leavis, Dickens the Novelist [1970] (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972) p. 9.
3. Hall Caine, ‘Bram Stoker. The story of a great friendship’, The Daily Telegraph, 24 April 1912, p. 16. Stoker’s obituary in The Times also conceded that though the author was ‘the master of a particularly lurid and creepy kind of fiction represented by “Dracula” and other novels’, he would most likely be remembered for his biography of Sir Henry Irving: The Times, 22 April 1912, p. 15.
4. Maurice Richardson, ‘The Psychoanalysis of Ghost Stories’, The Twentieth Century, 166 (1959) 419–31, reprinted in
5. Christopher Frayling, ed., Vampyres. Lord Byron to Count Dracula (London: Faber and Faber, 1991) pp. 418–22, 418 and 420.