During the writing of Dracula (1894–1896), the British press often reported on Turkish massacres of Armenians, contributing to the anxiety surrounding Ottoman power. Dracula is inspired by this and other Orientalist discourse: “The Count’s transgressions and aggressions are placed in the context, provided by innumerable travel narratives, of late-Victorian forays into the ‘East.’ ”

XREF: Connects to broader Orientalist discourse and how imperial anxieties filtered into Victorian fiction beyond Stoker.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 539