Dracula and Modern Life
In this short blog post, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown, Dr Hosanna Krienke, and Dr Sarah Green discuss the role of the vampire in channeling fears about modernity: 'Dracula and Modern Life'. They explore three topics relevant to Bram Stoker's Dracula:
The Vampire, Science, and Technology
Vampirism as Madness
The Vampire and Sexuality
This blog post is part of the Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives Research project, led by Sally Shuttleworth.
Date Published:
28 March 2019
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Contributors:
Emilie Taylor-Brown, Hosanna Krienke, Sarah Green
In Collection(s):
The Victorian Gothic
Keywords:
Bram Stoker, Dracula, gothic, Vampires