Modernity, Science, and the Supernatural

From Dracula by Bram Stoker
The novel obsessively pairs cutting-edge technology (phonographs, typewriters, blood transfusion, Kodaks) with ancient folklore - modernity must rediscover old knowledge to defeat Dracula.
Chapter 17

Mina hearing Seward's phonograph diary - the technological marvel that allows the assembled narrative.

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Chapter 14

Van Helsing's catalog of impossible things modern science cannot explain - the famous defense of belief in the supernatural.

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