Nov 05 2024 63 mins 5
This week, we continue our unit on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. What are we to make of a man who lays his own table? How does the Count turn the tools of the Victorian world against English society? Does a queer reading of Dracula falter on the threshold of the gender binary?
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Next week, we cover the first seven chapters of the book, live on YouTube on Monday November 11th, 8PM Central.
Footnotes:
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- Stars And Swords on YouTube
- “How Tolkien Disguised Ice-Age Europe as Middle-Earth” (The Saxon Cross)
- One Thousand And One Nights (Wikipedia)
- Junji Ito
- “Kiss Me With Those Red Lips: Gender and Inversion In Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (Christopher Craft)
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