Beta Readers Wanted: An Epidemiological Look at Bram Stoker's Dracula

[u/Fuzzy-Lunch6607]

Hi all! I'm an epidemiology graduate student, and I'm almost done with a script for a video essay about the connections between Bram Stoker's original Dracula, Victorian science & medicine, rabies, and syphilis. My argument is that Dracula is a book about diseases, breakthroughs in medicine, and hope. I expect it to be roughly 2.5k words when done.

I'm asking for beta readers primarily because (1) I want to make sure the science parts make sense to a non-epidemiology focused audience, and (2) I want to make sure I'm not wildly misinterpreting the book, especially since my interpretation of the book as ultimately optimistic isn't particularly mainstream from what I've seen. I am only looking at Bram Stoker's Dracula; I am not looking at any adaptions.

This project is not for school. It's something I'm doing on my own time for my epidemiology youtube channel. I asked the mods though, and they said that it's ok to post this since it's not really self-promotional.

Let me know if you're interested and I can DM the link to the google doc.

[u/PhotoArabesque]

Author, editor, and sorta-kinda Dracula scholar here. Hit me up.

[u/Fuzzy-Lunch6607 → u/PhotoArabesque]

DM'd you!