ENGL 2706Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reprobation, Irish Nationalism, Voyeurism
11 Nov 2015
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Identified with the legitimate school of english romance of sir walter scott . Liberation of the vampire: tortured outcast, racism and capitalism, alternative gender, sexual and familial formulations. History: folkloric vampire: associated with disease, death, bodily dissolution in pre- industrial society (cattle-blood drinking peasant) Monstrosity: anthropology: human as prey, reminding us that we were once prey, end slaying the monster to get over the fear. Old politics: polluting figure: racism, sexism, anti-semitism. A means for expressing all of those sentiments. Coleridge, christabel : seduction poem, vampirism: alien femininity (used for exploring, confined to women"s bedrooms and dreams, carmilla as metaphor for female, and specifically lesbian, sexuality. 19th century culture: strict sexual mores, religious fear, sin, hellfire. To have strong passions is held to be rather a disgrace for a woman, and they are looked down upon a animal, sensual, coarse, and deserving of reprobation.
