In 1897, Bram stoker novel “Dracula” took an old fabled figure and turned him into the utmost horrifying vampire of all time. A century later Stoker’s novel still stands as one of the best in fiction gothic literature but if we were reading it in late Victorian London, the fears and anxieties portrayed were more a reality. One can understand the fear as Imperialism, economic wealth, modernity were some of the many accomplishments that turned London to a Dominating force in the world. At the end of
Research Methods: Traditional and Digital EL0767 Critical Review: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Judith Halberstam Katie Weymes 09006464 Introduction As a key text of its field, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Dr. Judith Halberstam, approaches the topic of monstrosity as a construction of the body through a range of discourses in the evolution of Gothic culture from literature of the early nineteenth century to modern film. A contribution
function of representing the prototype of the ideal Victorian Woman in Stoker’s novel, Mina also has important functions with regard to the male characters. By biting Mina and forcing her to drink his blood, Dracula mocks the lack of manhood of Jonathan, who is lying impotently next to them. Thus, Dracula asserts his power over the male characters by seducing and assimilating the female characters. Yet, as far as the hunting of Dracula is concerned, Mina is the one who significantly furthers his capture
Lakshmi Mitra Roll no. 38 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Richard Marsh’s horror novel The Beetle (published in 1897, the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula) has been credited as his most successful commercial work, though he also authored several other novels and short stories in the same genre. It tells the story of a fantastical shape-shifting creature (at times a gender-ambiguous human, and at other times, a beetle) who stalks
Learning Journal: Week 1: Romanticism: • Rose in the 1790s in Germany and Britain, and in the 1820s in France and elsewhere, it is known as the Romantic Movement or Romantic Revival • Writers of the time thought of them self as free spirits that wrote of the imaginative truth within them self, and repudiated the aristocratic way of life. • The creative imagination occupied the centre of Romantic views of art Writers and texts: William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Lewis: Tales of Terror Jane