| Status | 已發表Published |
| Black Eyes, White Skin: An Aristocratic or Royal Type in Bram Stoker's Writings | |
Shaw, D. J.
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| 2019 | |
| Source Publication | Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World |
| Publication Place | Clemson |
| Publisher | Clemson University Press |
| Pages | 177-194 |
| Abstract | Black Eyes, White Skin: An Aristocratic or Royal Type in Bram Stoker’s Writings. Important issues raised by Bram Stoker’s writings, such as the “new woman,” Liberalism, the Egyptian Gothic, and anxieties relating to contemporary social and scientific theories have received cogent critical attention. Apart from analysis of Dracula, however, the issue of Stoker’s treatment of the aristocracy or royalty in his writing has received scant attention, though David Glover does note, in passing, that Stoker’s texts typically show “extreme ambivalence concerning those of noble birth.” This chapter will firstly briefly situate Stoker in a political context, and then present a chronological survey of a particular character type, a woman or man with black eyes and white skin, in order to assess Stoker’s presentation of aristocracy and royalty. Even though this character occurs in several novels, I agree with William Hughes when he says that Stoker is not simply repetitious. Hughes notes that when we see recurrences in Stoker these are “in essence, reworkings rather than simply replications. Each fresh occurrence, as it were, is modified by its contiguity to other issues, other signifiers and other texts.” This tendency is Stoker’s fiction renders focus on a particular character type as it recurs over time particularly instructive. |
| Keyword | Bram Stoker Aristocracy Social Class Royalty |
| URL | View the original |
| Language | 英語English |
| ISBN | 9781942954644 |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 32177 |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF MACAO LEGAL STUDIES |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Shaw, D. J.. Black Eyes, White Skin: An Aristocratic or Royal Type in Bram Stoker's Writings[M]. Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World, Clemson:Clemson University Press, 2019, 177-194. |
| APA | Shaw, D. J..(2019). Black Eyes, White Skin: An Aristocratic or Royal Type in Bram Stoker's Writings. Bram Stoker and the Late Victorian World, 177-194. |
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