Adapting Bram Stoker's Dracula As Hypertext Fiction

Abstract

Victorian and electronic literature share in common an expression in a wide range of mediums including literature, poetry, and the arts. Both genres are “notoriously difficult to define” and can be disorienting. Hypertext fiction, a popular form of electronic literature, raises many questions about literature that can be examined more carefully through a reader's discourse with the genre. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is a novel that is ideal for adaptation to hypertext fiction. It is non-linear, multi modal, and expressed via a number of forms of literary technology. This article will discuss how Dracula would thrive as a work of hypertext fiction by close reading chapters four to six of the novel and comparing it with Canadian hypertext author Caitlin Fisher's These Waves Of Girls.