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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20010322
Author:HUSTIS, HARRIET

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) is all about control--or so it seems. The novel's focus on power (who has it, who wants it, who gets it, and who gets to keep it) is not surprising in a late-Victorian text that problematizes issues of gender, culture, and sexuality by foregrounding motifs of imperialism and vampirism.(1) An aspect of the novel that is less often explored, however, is the way in which the problematics of power are also conceived of as textual issues--an inherent irony given that so much of Dracula seems to consist of textuality run amuck, diligently and at times ...

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