![]() ![]() late 20th-century) cultural and political developments, and thinks that it changed more or less in step with these. Auerbach links the vampire trope with contemporary (i.e. Obviously if you have time, you will want to consult Auerbach, and later Christopher Frayling's books in their original form. The passages in quotation marks are Auerbach, the rest is me (but a fair paraphrase of what she says). What to do with this is to ask "how much of this is true"? "Is this a reasonable assessment of the evidence?" (which, remember, you now also possess). I thought it better to have a look at the original from which it was taken. A lengthy extract from it is published in the appendix to the Norton edition of Dracula, but it is largely about vampire movies. We are now in a position to assess the arguments of Nina Auerbach in Our Vampires, Ourselves.Īuerbach has been amongst the most influential scholars in this field during the past quarter of a century and is co-editor of the Norton Dracula which is the set text for this course. ![]()
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