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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... frontier with transit duties and prohibitive tariffs [ 143 ] . Such thinking , as Rawlinson points out , fails to take into account that “ India is a conquered country , where a certain amount of discontent must ever be smoldering which ...
... frontier of India . Moreover , these wars demonstrated for all to see the tenacity , cunning , and deadliness of Afghan warriors and how important it was to deny them to Russia . When Kipling returned to India later that year , he ...
... frontier separating Afghanistan and India . Peter Hopkirk , in The Great Game : The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia , describes just how this scheme worked : " Indian hillmen of exceptional intelligence and resource , specifically ...
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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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