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... and Modernity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Victorian Literature and Culture 22 ( 1994 ): 249 –65. Greenslade , William . Degeneration, Culture and the Novel, 1880–1940 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994 . Herbert , Christopher . Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery...

...Barry McCrea This article proposes a new account of sexuality and narrative in Bram Stoker's Dracula . It suggests that the two plot strands of the novel—the petit bourgeois narrative of Jonathan and Mina's courtship and the gothic story of Jonathan's imprisonment by Count Dracula—are two different...

... in which an emergent fashion industry summons women to abandon the corset in public and enter the fantasy worlds of modern dress designs that accentuate the body and stimulate its desires, so too are novelists issuing similar summons. Such sensational novels as Bram Stoker's Dracula and George du Maurier's...

...Nick Daly JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. xi + 173, paper, $29.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Out of the Crypt JOSEPH VALENTE, Dracula's Crypt...

... her pocketbook and legitimated her further enfranchisement. Fears that imperial commerce was equivalent to foreign invasion and that female desire was the rawest form of revolutionary power famously combine in Dracula. What makes Stoker's novel a less than perfect example of British anxiety...

... for this process in Bram Stoker's Dr~cliln,a novel in whch, she suggests, desire "comes from outside the self" (153). The ~iovelhas, of course, mostly been read in recent years as an explicit fable of sexual repres- sion. Margolis contends, however, that what is interesting about Stoker's heroine, Lucy...

...: Harvard UP, 1960 . Stephen , Leslie . “Art and Morality.” Cornhill 32 ( 1875 ): 91 –101. Stoker , Bram . Dracula . 1897. Ed. Glennis Byron. Peterborough: Broadview, 1998 . Toulmin , Stephen . Human Understanding . Vol. 1 . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972 . Trombley...

... as (heterosexual)English domestic angels and women as transnational sexual innovators. In the second section of this volume, for example, the only article on a male writer discusses Bram Stoker's narrative of the "tropical" character of the "whiteness" of white womenabm or, as Piya Pal-Lapinski puts...

... in the writings of Andrew Lang (of The Blue Fairy Book fame) on realism and romance.” Brantlinger thus suggestively links the ethnographic project of earlier anthropologists like Edward Tylor with the Imperial Gothic of writers like H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and even...

... character of that century's prose, his study often takes on some of that character for itself. The first sentence of the chapter on “something” tells us that “Austen and Stoker, Dickens and Eliot, Newman and Darwin” all use “something” to consider the political and epistemological value of vagueness...

... of the study offers an extended literary analysis ingeniously placing together two fictional characters who seem to occupy imaginative poles in fin de siècle Britain and who ultimately signal bohemia's death throes. Bram Stoker's Dracula—aristocratic, unashamedly parasitic on society, and with a “sense...

..., Neill R. “A Note on the Naming of Singleton in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus Conradiana 8 (1976): 77–80. Kafka, Franz. The Trial. 1925. New York: Modern Library, 1964. Kane, Michael. “Insiders/Outsiders: Conrad’s The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Modern Language...

... shows up in an archetypal modern horror story, Bram Stoker's Dracula . As Jennifer Wicke claims, the distance between the vampire tale and The Waste Land might be smaller than their disparate forms suggest, as Stoker's novel strongly anticipates a high modernist dread of public life given over...

... variety of popular texts, including better-known ones, less familiar ones by familiar authors (H. Rider Haggard's Smith and the Pharaohs , Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars ), and others like George Griffith's The Mummy and Miss Nictoris . Beyond the gothic revenge of various mummy hands...

... description of the “plague-cloud” and Bram Stoker's description of Dracula's arrival in England (1897), is that the figure of the storm clouds over England is meant to infuse the narrative of scientific progress with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. “I leave you,” he says, “to compare...

... of Chicago P, 1989 . Craft , Christopher . “‘Kiss Me with Those Red Lips:’ Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Representations 8 ( 1984 ): 107 –33. Derrida , Jacques . Positions . Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981 . Ellenberger , Henri...

..., Dani Stewart, Susan Black and White, II: 393 Crimes of Writing, III: 124 Shelley, Mary Stoker, Bram Frankenstein, III: 116, 176 Dracula, I: 304 The Last Man, I: 355...

.... Olorenshaw , Robert . “Narrating the Monster: From Mary Shelley to Bram Stoker.” Bann 158 –76. Plotz , Judith . Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood . New York: Palgrave, 2001 . Randel , Fred V. “The Political Geography of Horror in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” ELH 70 ( 2003...

..., engage, improve, or abandon novels. New genres like the zombie romance are incubated here. Amanda Hocking's unlikely mash-up of novels by Bram Stoker and Charlotte Brontë sold two million copies on Wattpad, the public writing platform that calls itself “the world's largest storytelling community...

... in the late Victorian and Edwardian realism wars if we recall David Trotter's version of the basic displacement narrative in which modernism and mass culture both eclipse realism in the 1880–1910 period in Britain. Trotter's narrative takes in late Victorian writers like Stevenson, Haggard, and Stoker, who...