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Recent Posts

  • Beware the “New Woman!” September 21, 2023
  • Locations and their Superstitions September 21, 2023
  • Lucy and Purity in “Dracula” September 21, 2023
  • An Epitaph Not for the Dead September 21, 2023
  • Complex Women: Duality of Mina Harker September 20, 2023
  • Van Helsing Is a Drama Queen September 20, 2023
  • Decadence in Poetry September 20, 2023
  • Devils in Disguise September 19, 2023
  • Van Helsing’s Critique of Certainty and Modernity September 19, 2023
  • Dear Luver, September 18, 2023
  • Epistolography Affording Honest Conversation September 18, 2023
  • Burying the Undead in Dracula September 18, 2023
  • Count. Love In: Dracula’s Journey into Homosexual Romance Norms September 18, 2023
  • Lay of the Trilobite: A Crustacean’s Indictment of Humanity September 18, 2023
  • Vampire or Siren? Women’s sexuality in Dracula September 18, 2023
  • Jonathan needs to get out more September 18, 2023
  • Lucy and her Reckless Freedom September 18, 2023
  • Vampirism and the British Empire September 17, 2023
  • Trussst in me, jussst in me September 17, 2023
  • Lucy Corrupted: “Oh, God!” No More September 17, 2023
  • Dracula and Xenophobia September 17, 2023
  • hello! September 14, 2023

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Resources

General Resources:

  • The Victorian Web (search)
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  • The British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians (homepage)
    • Aestheticism and decadence
    • Daughters of decadence: the New Woman in the Victorian fin de siècle  

 

 

 

 

Dracula

  • Dracula: vampires, perversity and Victorian anxieties (British Library)

Dorian Gray

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray: art, ethics and the artist  (British Library)
  • Perversion and degeneracy in The Picture of Dorian Gray  (British Library)

 

 

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