The Vampire: What boundaries does it threaten?
Date Submitted: 11/28/2004 20:05:10
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 35 pages (9643 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 35 pages (9643 words)
The Vampire
What boundaries does the Vampire threaten?
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Discuss possible answers to this question with reference to at least two critical or theoretical essays and at least two tellings' of the Dracula story.
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The Vampire in Dracula threatens the very existence of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring the threat of the Gothic home to Victorian England (Arata 119). This in turn …
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…at the Fin de Siecle. London: Virago, 1990.
Signorotti, Elizabeth. "Repressing the Body: Transgressive Desire in 'Camilla and Dracula'." Criticism. 38, 1996, pp. 607-632.
Smith, Andrew. Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Pyschoanalysis in the 19th Century. New York: St Martin's Press, 1999, chpt. 6.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula (electronic resource). London: Electronic Book Co. 2001.
Waller, Gregory, A. "Tod Browning's Dracula." Auerbach and Skal pp. 382 - 389.
Wasson, Richard. "The Politics of Dracula." English Literature in Translation. 9, 1966, pp. 24-27.
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