Dracula ’s Apologetics of Progress
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucas Kwong (New York City College of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-129 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150315000455 |
| OpenAlex | W2293354777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Religion in Dracula studies has often looked a little like the Un-Dead Lucy, a ghastly simulacrum of living faith. Indeed, readings of the novel frequently depend on a suspicious approach to the novel's professions of piety, one that regards them as a mask for more fundamental concerns: the heroes profess religious concern, but what they really want is to neutralize the New Woman, or racial degeneration, or sexual perversion. Under these conditions, Christianity provides, at best, a potent discourse through which the characters can manage these coded crises. When religion does enter the conversation, critics tend to read the text for clues to Stoker's personal position on the theological controversies of his day: the Catholic-Protestant divide in Ireland, the place of High Church ritualism in Anglican worship, the merit of the doctrine of transubstantiation. As a result, we are left with a Dracula that functions as an elaborate code book, encrypting what Stoker secretly (or not-so-secretly) believed
Art · Doctrine · Dracula · Faith · Literature · Piety · Protestantism · Theology · Worship · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Religious studies
The Forging of Races
The Gothic Body
Vampiric Seduction and Vicissitudes of Masculine Identity in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Castle, Coffin, Stomach
The Evolution of Religion
Popular Apologetics in Late Victorian England
The Lotus and the Lion
The Forging of Races
An Introduction to the History of Religion
Introducción a la literatura fantástica
Vampire Religion
The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |