The shadow cast by Anglo-Saxon racism on Stoker's work, especially Dracula, cannot be discounted. Stoker clearly harbored some anxieties that were rooted in his Anglo-Irish identity, but he was also inspired by American racial mythology. Stoker personally knew Buffalo Bill Cody, the Western showman whose shows expressed "the regeneration of the white race through frontier conflict and technological progress." The character Quincey Morris (who is a casualty in the fight against Dracula) was based on Cody, and like the American entertainer, Morris uses Western technology (in the form of guns and a frontiersmen Bowie knife) in the crusade against the count.

XREF: Connects to scholarship on race and colonial anxiety in gothic literature; pairs with postcolonial readings of Dracula.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 518