Blood and Sexuality in Stoker's Dracula

Pop Zarieva, Natalija and Kostova, Kristina and Krsteva, Marija (2021) Blood and Sexuality in Stoker's Dracula. Yearbook of the Faculty of Philology, University Goce Delcev, Stip, 12 (18). pp. 171-179. ISSN 1857-7059

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Abstract

The vampire figure of the nineteenth century literature has been shaped into asupple metaphor malleable to the impactsof the era’s developments and discoveriessuch as Darwinian theories, Freudian discoveries as well as some quasi-scientific theories such as Cesare Lombroso’s criminology. Dracula represents a narrative written from different perspectives or ‘points of view’, encompassing an array of
fields—medicine, ethnography, imperialist ideologies, criminal theory, theories of degeneration and evolution, physiognomy, ideas of feminism and so on. There is a
sudden change in the nature of the vampire from folklore during the Late Victorian period due to these scientific advancements when the vampire ceased to be merely
an impulsive folkloric construction and resulted in, after the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a significant product of the entertainment industry of the centuries
that followed.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Natalija Pop Zarieva
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2023 13:18
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2023 13:18
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/31501

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