ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexualization, Renfield, Emily Gerard
15 Mar 2017
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Dichotomies: tension between, religion and science, primitivism and modernism, normalcy and monstrosity, east vs. west. Immediacy but not accuracy: gerard did not speak the language of the natives whose culture she is describing: attributes a kind of deformity to the region, 1. Idea of driving a stake through a corpse (used in dracula: caverns, forests, solitary lakes, mountains -> setting influenced inhabitants way of thinking, seems like land can t be anything other than superstitious, it"s part of its nature, 2. Imported superstition: old german customs brought over, west (in this case north) has exiled something which then finds its home in. Illegitimate offspring of two illegitimate persons: has to do with purity of bloodline, dead, werewolves. Lombroso and nordow (d 402-411: classifying humans on a larger scale, lombroso: (cid:522)criminals, savages, and apes(cid:523); criminals are born, inherent trait, in your. Dna: nordow: regeneration; homosexuality - degeneration of manhood and womanhood; problem with pleasure for pleasure"s sake.
