"The "Nineteenth Century Up-to-Date with a Vengeance
From Dracula's "Horrid Cargo" to "Ghastly" Millennial Freightage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5098057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thorell Porter Tsomondo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 57-74 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2019.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2972764277 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Focusing on Dracula's metaphoric East-to-West apportionment and transportation of "land"—his conveyance of fifty large crates of imported earth to the former colonial centre—this essay examines Stoker's anatomization of nineteenth-century cross-Atlantic imperialism, highlighting his on-the-mark prefigurement and critique of the present global immigration crisis and the "terror" it inherits as well as enlists
Apportionment · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Dracula · Immigration · Literature · Political science · American and British Literature Analysis · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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