Shoe Leather in Dracula

The novel back in the nineteenth century was very heavy on exposition. So for me to say that there was a lot of shoe leather in dracula, and there are a lot of beats that just did not really go anywhere, would be a mistake. We live ina different era, because people have been exposed to thousands of draculas stories. But you want to up date stoker and eliminate the things that were necessary in that era in a contemporary vampire story. And so what caleb carr did was he thought, like, wouldn't it be cool to write the silence of the lambs and set it in the victorian era? He said, i'm going research right