Hi everyboby
The text of Dracula provides the reader with an interesting dichotomy between morden and the past. New historicism views a story from a historical context. Writter try to define a specific time period to relate the novel to a historical context. Also, the castle text, a ambivalence and ascendancy in bram stoker's Dracula" states that, " critics typically interpret the contradictory
interdependance of supersition and modernity in Dracula as a reflection of the ambivalence generated by comprting ideologics of gender, race, class and nationlism with in modernity. Stoker does give the reader several clues that allow us to narrow down the historical setting of the novel.
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I agree with Luciane a that throughout "Dracula" Bram Stoker does give us clues of when the story takes place. It does so when it discusses Jonathan Harkers trip on the coach to the Counts castle. It also does so when the typewriter is mentioned, and when Dr. Steward records his records.
I think your on to a really important idea within Stoker's work but you definitely need to expand on it. It's a very in depth concept that a lot can be stated on such as how the historic evidence pertains to the overall significance of the work, and even further, despite the obvious historical nature of the work, is there a certain element of universalism that allows the work, despite being portrayed at a certain place and time, to transcend that boundary into our time or another time in history the the author may have intended?
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