Book contents
- Blood
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Blood
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Battle Blood
- 2 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England
- 3 Blood in Motion, or the Physics of Blood Flow
- 4 Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker’s Reflections on the Zeitgeist
- 5 Blood Lines of the British People
- 6 Heroes and Villains of Blood
- 7 Cold Blood: Some Ways by Which Animals Cope with Low Temperatures
- 8 Blood Sculptures
- Index
- References
4 - Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker’s Reflections on the Zeitgeist
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2022
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Book contents
- Blood
- The Darwin College Lectures
- Blood
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Battle Blood
- 2 Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England
- 3 Blood in Motion, or the Physics of Blood Flow
- 4 Dracula, Blood, and the New Woman: Stoker’s Reflections on the Zeitgeist
- 5 Blood Lines of the British People
- 6 Heroes and Villains of Blood
- 7 Cold Blood: Some Ways by Which Animals Cope with Low Temperatures
- 8 Blood Sculptures
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter the author probes beneath the melodramatic surface of the story of Count Dracula, to reveal more subtle narrative threads, relating to Bram Stoker's critical social observations, both looking back in time, where many metaphorical dimensions of ‘blood’ are in play, and forward in time to late-nineteenth-century changes in gender relations, particularly as encapsulated in the figure of the ‘New Woman’. Just as blood-steeped history is conspicuous on the melodramatic surface of the fiction, so a forward-looking, scientific, and liberated future is discernible just beneath that surface.
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- Blood , pp. 65 - 83Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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