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Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban society in place of the traditional agrarian one. Moreover, counter-intuitively it turns out that fantasy literature is analogous to modern Galilean science in its manipulation of the symbolic thereb

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Author

Josephine Sharoni

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004336582

Category

history

Subjects

Psychology, Literary Criticism, History

Updated

2026-03-25