Good morning! I didn't mean to suggest that Stoker INTENDED to write that scene as a sex scene, not at all. Quite the opposite; he wasn't that kind of man, ...
Wow - what were the other two genders? Spooky place you live in! :-) ________________________________ four skeletons of different genders Colin This message...
Must have celebrated a bit too much last night. Anyhow, I said more about myself than I meant to and, frankly, if I saw my last posting from anyone else I'd...
... I think it's EXTREMELY significant that despite the fact that there is a houseful of female servants and despite the fact that the men are being weakened...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the Gothic_Lit group: Do you think that Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' has an erotic subtext? o Yes o No o I'm...
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Seconded! Emily ________________________________ I really hope you'll reconsider and stick around! Al This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and...
Good point. Can you remind me, does Dracula drink blood from the madman (I forget his name)? ________________________________ From: Gothic_Lit@yahoogroups.com...
Yes, Michael, I thought we were having a great Halloween party. Admittedly someone spiked the punch with raw vodka and another person let off the laughing gas...
Renfield. No he doesn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield Colin ... madman ... [mailto:Gothic_Lit@yahoogroups.com] On ... has ... is ... is a ... being ...
And I'd like to know more about Gothic Italy. Ravenna sounds a very creepy place judging by "Pages from a Young Girl's Diary" by Robert Aikman, not to mention...
... Italy and Spain were seen as being especially gothic by British gothic writers, weren't they? There was a definite obsession with Catholicism. Al...
... Poor Renfield is definitely rejected by Dracula, and when you consider that he'd probably be a most willing victim you have to assume that the reason is ...
But Dracula DOES say to his brides vis-a-vis Harker: "This man belongs to me" which is somewhat suggestive. And Harker cutting himself shaving arouses the...
Yes, we should certainly mark the Castles of Otranto and Udolpho, the Inquisition building in Rome, Ravenna and Venice and other Adriatic resorts on the...
... What about other parts of Europe? Are there any significant gothic texts set in Germany or other northern European countries? Are there any important...
Germany formerly had the reputation of being the heartland of the Gothic. This was before Poe's remarks that 'Terror was not of Germany but of the Soul'. The...
Maybe Harker becomes somewhat 'feminised' by taking on the the trad female role of victim in a gothic house of horror. Harker is the sub to the Counts dom....
... And maybe Jonathan represents the fear of over-civilised European manhood not being virile enough to cope with foreigners, who are of course all sex-crazed...
Englishmen - lock up your wives and daughters! The sex crazed Count Dracula speaks: Yes, I too can love. You yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not...
John Polidori's The Vampyre I've been re-reading John Polidori's THE VAMPYRE. The introduction to The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, edited by Robert...
On the subject of what vampires were like before Polidori turned them into beings that could mix in the best society, a book I highly recommend is "Vampires,...
Or maybe Lord Glenarvon in Lady Caroline Lamb's Gothic romance 'Glenarvon' is the prototype vampire? Anybody here read 'Glenarvon'? I haven't. Colin ... to The...
I read it. It's kind of a gossip rag. No, he's not the vampiric type in this book. He is, however, they Byronic hero...dark, brooding, bad boy type. Basically,...
As far as I know he is. Colleen Allan Griffith <dfordoom@...> wrote: John Polidori's The Vampyre I've been re-reading John Polidori's THE VAMPYRE. The...
Its a common error that 'Glenarvon' is merely a roman a clef about Byron. It is a proper Gothic romance. Colin ... type in this book. He is, however, they...
It may be a Gothic romance, but I don't know about proper. It wasn't very good, actually, which is why hardly anyone reads it these days. Give it a try,...
... The Byronic hero and the vampire overlap quite a bit though. re ... It's more original than sending flowers. And less fattening than chocolate. And it...
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