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Shapiro, Stephen (2008) Transvaal, Transylvania : Dracula's world-system and Gothic periodicity. Gothic Studies, Vol.10 (No.1). pp. 29-47. doi:10.7227/GS.10.1.5
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/GS.10.1.5
Abstract
Gothic productions appear in clusters during the capitalist world-market's transition from one economic cycle to another. Using a world-systems approach, I argue that Gothic narrative devices and sensations are both historically specific to the time of their production and representative of the general logic of capitalist time-space contortions. A world-systems perspective insists on an inter-state relational approach relatively unexplored within Gothic studies. Using Stoker's Dracula as a case study, the article claims that Dracula encodes inter-imperialist tensions, primarily those between England and Germany and their proxy agents over South African gold mines in the Transvaal. This antagonism provides the background to the Boer War, itself a forerunner to the First World War's battle among imperialists.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Gothic Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 1362-7937 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.10 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 29-47 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.7227/GS.10.1.5 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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