How Long to Read Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel?

How Long Does it Take to Read Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel??

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 1 minute to read Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel? by Jelena Vukadinovic

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik), course: Gothic Novel, language: English, abstract: [...] What is even more interesting is that vampirism is present even in the every day life of some communities. The Gothic Rock movement for example seems to insist on the so-called vampire fashion in clothing, as well as on white painted faces and blood-red rouged lips. In some internet book and film forums one even comes across people who claim to belong to the growing community of the so called 'human living vampires'. Despite all these fictional and non-fictional modern vampires, the cliché of a dark gentleman in evening attire, preferably chasing young ladies in negligees, is still the first association in people's mind when it comes to mentioning vampires. This cliché apparently originated from the numberless films about the most famous of vampires - Count Dracula. Most of these film versions have kept only some superficial characteristics of Stoker's novel, as in today's popular culture Dracula has become something of a simple horror story. The novel is yet certainly more than an entertaining read. It offers, among other things, an interesting study of the late Victorian society. As it is the aim of this paper to analyse Dracula as a product of its time, it focuses on some of the issues through which societies are generally defined. The topics chosen for the analysis of the novel in the context of late Victorianism are first of all sexuality and gender roles. The choice of searching for potential signs of sexuality in a Victorian novel is quite obvious, since Victorianism is generally identified with extreme prudishness and double standards. The issue of gender roles will concentrate mainly on women roles, since the second half of the 19th century is one of the most important periods in history of female emancipation. Furthermore, religion in Drac

How long is Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel??

Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel? by Jelena Vukadinovic is 61 pages long, and a total of 15,311 words.

This makes it 21% the length of the average book. It also has 19% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel? Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 23 minutes to read Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel? aloud.

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Dracula and Victorianism: A Conservative Or Subversive Novel? is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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