But dear me, what a badly written book! Boring, stupid and arch-conservative.
Truer words were never written! Let's not forget the ultra-macho homoeroticism fetishization of masculinity, and the connection between female sexual assertiveness and death/decay/perversion. I had the misfortune of having it be required reading for a Victorian Brit. Lit. class, and I kept reading it and thinking, 'She took George Elliot off the syllabus for this?'
I find the book interesting primarily for all the things it reveals about Stoker's time, despite the fact that he intended none of it.
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2007 11:45 am (UTC)Truer words were never written! Let's not forget the ultra-macho
homoeroticismfetishization of masculinity, and the connection between female sexual assertiveness and death/decay/perversion. I had the misfortune of having it be required reading for a Victorian Brit. Lit. class, and I kept reading it and thinking, 'She took George Elliot off the syllabus for this?'I find the book interesting primarily for all the things it reveals about Stoker's time, despite the fact that he intended none of it.