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The Vampire: What boundaries does it threaten?
Title: The Vampire: What boundaries does it threaten?
Category: Literature / European Literature
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The Vampire: What boundaries does it threaten?
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 crosses …showed first 75 words of 10011 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 10011 total…Gender and Culture 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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