Bram Stoker and Russophobia: Evidence of the British Fear of Russia in Dracula and The Lady of the ShroudMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2006年4月18日 - 203 頁 In Victorian England, a marked fear of Russia prevailed in the government and the public. As a result of the Crimean War and other Russian threats to the British empire, the English mind was haunted by a shadowy enemy of barbarous Eastern invaders. The influence of this Russophobia is evident in the works of Bram Stoker, who responded to the Russian challenge to British Imperial hegemony through the character of Dracula, a primitive and menacing Eastern figure destroyed by warriors pledged to the Crown. The text investigates the role of Russophobia in Stoker's fiction, particularly his novels Dracula and The Lady of the Shroud. It offers historical information about Russophobia and the Crimean War, considers Slavic and Balkan connections, and analyzes Stoker's vampire themes. The resulting work shows how two nations' histories intertwine in an unexpected literary avenue. Illustrations include numerous political cartoons of the era. |
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... Black Sea ( Norman Rich 197-199 ) . In practical terms , one of the costliest wars in English history had resulted in nothing better than a stalemate and at worst a defeat of England's imperial designs in the Balkans and Black Sea ...
... Black Sea steppe which had hitherto , as parts of the vassal Khanate of Crimea , been under Turkish suzerainty , " thus gaining Russia the right to unmolested navigation in the Black Sea and the right to build an Ortho- dox church in ...
... Black Sea . The presence of the Russian navy on the Black Sea alarmed senior officials with the East India Company ( Hopkirk 22 ) . The emerging threat posed by Napoleon shifted English attention away from Russian expansion . However ...
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ONE Russophobia and the Crimean War | 13 |
The Consequences of the Crimean | 48 |
Righting Old Wrongs and Displacing New Fears | 118 |
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