A Blood-Thirsty Gentleman | Lapham’s QuarterlyAfter his emigration on the doomed Demeter, Drac
A Blood-Thirsty Gentleman | Lapham’s QuarterlyAfter his emigration on the doomed Demeter, Dracula terrorizes the novel’s narrators not just by his predation of their women, but by his mastery of English accent and mannerisms, and his accrual of English property. Yet he has made this desire for complete absorption into English life clear from the beginning: in one of the book’s most telling and oddly poignant moments, Jonathan Harker enters Dracula’s study and finds him “lying on the sofa, reading, of all things in the world, and English Bradshaw’s Guide”—a railway timetable. Did you know that Jack the Ripper, anti-semitism, and Dracula all hang on the same thread of national fear? Well, they do. -- source link
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