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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Bram Stoker"”.
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
… interest in the recent desire of reappropriating Bram Stoker as an Irish author that can be noticed both in academia and in the wider public. In the past, Stoker was often included in anthologies of British writers without mentioning his being Irish, sometimes being even explicitly described as an …
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Bram Stoker and cultural unification: colonialism, hybridity and the gothic
… Colonialism and Nationality that occur within Bram Stoker's narratives through the representation of an ancient version of the past that actively engages with the Victorian present. This construction of the past demonstrates Stoker's political views surrounding the strengthening of a British …
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Through the eyes of a vampire: the effects of rhetorical context in two of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles
… of protagonist and antagonist. By comparing Bram Stoker's Dracula with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, I have found that context affects the reader's perception of the character and that even deeply ingrained ideas, such as the evilness of vampires, can be …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… popular novels that span the nineteenth century—Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth …
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Obscured Visions: Psychology, Religion, and Mysticism in J. SHeridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly
… less recognition than his contemporaries such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Charles Maturin—even though he likely influenced these later authors. Le Fanu’s novels and short stories explore the cultural zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Ireland and England in great …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
This essay examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and how the author carefully constructed the main antagonist, Count Dracula, one of literature’s most monstrous and notorious villain, to reflect late-nineteenth-century anxiety and fear of contagion, disease, and illness. It explores how the Count and …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. These metaphorisations of a crisis for identity in the nineteenth century are reflected in the analyses of insanity by physicians such as W.A.F. Browne and Henry Maudsley, prominent cultural critics such as Arthur Hallam and Amold, and …
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Persian miniature writing: An ethnography of Iranian organizations in Washington, D.C.
… AD) as well as non-native literary forms (Bram Stoker's Dracula), to the above-mentioned shifting and contrasting structures, affective landscapes, and patterns of socialization. In doing so, it destabilizes the categories of native and non-native, modern and traditional, democratic and …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… argue that Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Bram Stoker use sleep and wakefulness as vehicles to navigate gendered fluctuations of power and loss. <em>Jane Eyre, The Woman in White</em>, and <em>Dracula</em> each present sleep as a gendered space in which power is contested. I argue that …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
… to 1958, I take up works of fiction and drama by Bram Stoker, Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, revealing how various performers of the late-Victorian stage became essential to the formation of modernist aesthetics. I show that the actor's significance lay not only in her cultural …
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Castles in the Air
… that uses elements of the original Stoker text while also diverging from the story and exploring victim narratives and queer subtext. The project explores the limitations and possibilities of transformative texts, such as, essentially, fanfiction.</p>
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… Norah Joyce as the central figure of Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass (1890), bringing new complexity to portrayals and performances of gender in Stoker’s novel. My third chapter pairs H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with his gaming books, Floor Games (1911) and Little Wars (1913); …