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In this short blog post, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown, Dr Hosanna Krienke, and Dr Sarah Green discuss the role of the vampire in channeling fears about modernity: 'Dracula and Modern Life'. They explore three topics relevant to Bram Stoker's Dracula:

The Vampire, Science, and Technology
Vampirism as Madness
The Vampire and Sexuality

This blog post is part of the Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives Research project, led by Sally Shuttleworth.

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https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/
Date Published: 28 March 2019
Contributors:
Emilie Taylor-Brown, Hosanna Krienke, Sarah Green
In Collection(s): The Victorian Gothic
Keywords:
Bram Stoker, Dracula, gothic, Vampires
Source:
Diseases of Modern Life
Cite: Dracula and Modern Life by Emilie Taylor-Brown, Hosanna Krienke, Sarah Green at https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/dracula-modern-life. Published on 28 March 2019. Accessed on 21 November 2024.

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