Dracula

Recently read: Dracula by Bram Stoker.

For part of my thesis revision, I read this novel. Overall, I think Dracula is a terrible novel. It isn’t scary or frightening in the last for a “horror” novel. While Stoker’s outright misogyny is useful for a theoretical discussion, the novel is a slow read. The almost proto hypertext switches between letters, narrative, and other forms of correspondence is, again, interesting for a theoretical discussion, but doesn’t really work for this text.

Carmilla is a much better, and drastically more enlightened, novel. According to some research, Stoker wrote Dracula as a response to Carmilla’s more progressive narrative.

What an asshole.

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