I found the emphasis on the importance of language in tradition, and ultimately culture, in the “Cultural Nationalism” reading by … More
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Spiritualism and the Demonic
Dracula has a spiritually sinister tone through the book, as evident through Dracula’s demon-like nature as a supernatural predator of … More
Dracula in Society
The 1800s were a time of change in Dublin—but this was true for the rest of the world as well. … More
Bram Stoker’s “Fang-tastic” Epistolary Novel
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a Gothic horror novel that tells the story of Count Dracula, a supernatural being, who is … More
Myths and Memorials
Pictured Above: Oliver Sheppard’s “The Dying Cúchulain” (1911), given official placement in Dublin’s General Post Office, 1935. In the “Cultural … More
The Importance of Perspectives in Dracula
While reading Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula, I noticed that the novel was primarily formatted as a sequence of diary … More
Reporting History as it is.
Reading Siobhán Kilfeather’s Dublin: A Cultural History, especially chapter four, discusses the shift from a union to the famine period … More
Ancient and Modern in Dracula
One of the aspects which fascinated me the most about Dracula is the way in which it brings together the … More
Dracula and The Irish Literary Revival
Brown’s “Cultural Nationalism” traces the forces that shaped Ireland’s cultural and literary atmospheres during the late 19th and early 20th … More
The Invasion of the Other in Dracula
Reading Stoker’s Dracula made me think immensely about the theme of the other and to what extent the Count was … More
