Dracula Quick Context
- Created by: goatmint
- Created on: 13-01-20 10:07
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- Biographical
- Aquainted with writers such as Conan Doyle and Wilde
- v aware of Wilde's scandal + imprisonment
- Dracula: Context
- Publication, Reception + Inspiration
- Published 1897
- Drac supposedly inspired by Vlad the Impaler
- Key setting was notorious for Jack the Ripper murders in 1888
- Not particularly popular at publication, but acknowledged for its power to terrify + present the grotesque / monstrous
- Gothic Conventions
- Setting: Dark, isolated, castles, secret rooms, locked doors. Creates mystery and suspense.
- Supernatural / Unexplained
- Pursued protag.
- Good v Evil
- Moral resolution
- Female victim
- Key Terms
- Fin de Siècle
- Eastern Expansion
- Degeneration
- Criminal atavism
- Physiognomy
- Xenophobia
- Angel of the House
- New Woman
- Racial Contamination
- Vice and Virtue
- Decadence
- Publication, Reception + Inspiration
- Suspected to have died from syphilis complications
- Contamination / Female promiscuity
- Aquainted with writers such as Conan Doyle and Wilde
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