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Dracula at 125: what can a vampire tell us about Victorian Britain?

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The Anxiety of London in 1897

drocula is really about the anxieties of london in 18 97. There was a lot of concern abouttethe decline o manhood in victorian period. And that's partly also linked to the anxiety about the sudden e sense that e that women have independent desires. It's all kind of flowing together toe huge amounts of anxiety around the cultural sense of decline and decadence.

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