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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... Meyer and Brysac , was “ given universal currency in Kim , " Kipling's novel " about Kimball O'Hara , the ophaned son of an Irish soldier , who frustrates a Rus- sian plot in British India ” ( xxiii ) . Kipling and Stoker were ...
... ( Meyer and Brysac 159-162 ) . 4. No less an Anglophobe and Pan - Slavist than Count Ignatiev was Russian ambassador in Constantinople in 1877 when the war began . Using Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria as a pre- text , Ignatiev convinced ...
... Meyer and Brysac , describing the work of British and Indian surveyors and mapmakers who doubled as spies during the " Great Game ” with Russia on India's northern frontier , argue that " maps are political , and , it may be ven- tured ...
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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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