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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... human skull , its sinister outline threatening to consume western Europe . These representations of the czar as a spectral menace bear striking similar- ities with the illustration that adorned the cover of Stoker's first collection of ...
... human being , to Miss Nightingale herself [ 138 ] . And , though she had written to Harriet Martineau that she was " brutally indifferent to the wrongs or rights of my sex " ( qtd . in Woodham - Smith 217 ) , a letter to her father ...
... human aggression requires the right combination of birth and upbringing if the march of human progress is to continue " ( Vampires , Mummies , and Liberals 74 ) . 4. Wilkinson observes that descendents from the original Slavs " went to ...
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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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