Science And Social Science In Bram Stoker S Fiction
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Science And Social Science In Bram Stoker S Fiction
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Author : Carol A. Senf
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-10-30
Science And Social Science In Bram Stoker S Fiction written by Carol A. Senf and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Best known today as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker also wrote several other works, including The Jewel of Seven Stars, Lady Athlyne, and The Lair of the White Worm. In his exploration of supernatural subjects, such as vampirism, he is clearly a Gothic writer. The fantastic elements of his novels seem very much at odds with the world of science. Stoker, nonetheless, draws upon a large body of scientific theory and technological innovation throughout his writings. This book studies his blending of Gothic subjects with emerging discoveries in science and technology. The volume begins with an overview of Stoker's familiarity with scientific and technical developments. It then examines the role of science and technology in his various works, which demonstrate his familiarity with civil engineering, anthropology, physics, chemistry, and archaeology. While many of his writings seem to offer a rather uncritical celebration of science and its applications, some works, such as The Jewel of Seven Stars, reveal what happens when science oversteps its bounds. Stoker emerges as an early writer of science fiction whose work thoughtfully considers the place of science in society.
Hugo Gernsback Father Of Modern Science Fiction
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Author : Mark Siegel
language : en
Publisher: Millefleurs
Release Date : 1988
Hugo Gernsback Father Of Modern Science Fiction written by Mark Siegel and has been published by Millefleurs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
Social And Religious Aspects In Bram Stoker S Dracula
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Author : Thomas Schöll
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2003-04-04
Social And Religious Aspects In Bram Stoker S Dracula written by Thomas Schöll and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay from the year 1995 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: Introduction to Literature, language: English, abstract: 1. Background to the time the story was written To reveal the social background of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" , as well as the aspects of religion and science that influenced on society, we have to consider the events of that time. "Dracula" was written in the year of 1897. It was the so-called Victorian Age that was expressed by a high morality which was especially celebrated by the upper class who more than ever felt superior towards the poor working classes. It was a time when great social and economical problems struck society, especially its poor levels. But it also was a time of great scientific progress that lead to an upper society becoming richer and the working class remaining poor. The final result was a strong belief in materialism on the side of those who considered scientific progress as important and positive and a growing interest in Roman Catholicism, parapsychology and spirituality on the side of those who were more sceptic towards science and materialism. Society was more and more divided into rich and poor and the problems on the side of the poor increased. That was one reason why the church lost its power and influence on the majority of the society. Another reason for this was Gladstone's "Disestablishment Act". But it was also a time when England invaded other countries to increase their number of colonies that could be exploited. [...]
Dracula
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Author : Bram Stoker
language : en
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1982-04-12
Dracula written by Bram Stoker and has been published by Random House Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-04-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.
School And Society Through Science Fiction
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Author : Joseph D. Olander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
School And Society Through Science Fiction written by Joseph D. Olander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Education categories.
Originally published by Rand McNally in 1974, this volume investigates the applicability of science fiction to the study of social foundations of education and its problems. The editors argue that science fiction is an ideal tool for analyzing the problems because it does not possess limitations on the nature of problematic inquiry; its boundary of inquiry is subject only to that of the human imagination. Science fiction offers the student of school and society a methodological tool by which man and his relationships) actual and possible) may be studied. The possibility of ideas simply reinforces their probability, and the link between the present and the future becomes the human imagination.
A Genealogy Of Cyborgothic
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Author : Dongshin Yi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
A Genealogy Of Cyborgothic written by Dongshin Yi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In his provocative and timely study of posthumanism, Dongshin Yi adopts an imaginary/imaginative approach to exploring the transformative power of the cyborg, a strategy that introduces balance to the current discourses dominated by the practicalities of technoscience and the dictates of anthropocentrism. Proposing the term "cyborgothic" to characterize a new genre that may emerge from gothic literature and science fiction, Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and ethical practice that can enable a posthumanist relationship between human and non-human beings. Yi examines the cyborg's literary manifestations in novels, including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Dracula, Arrowsmith, and He, She and It, alongside philosophical and critical texts such as Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and System of Logic, William James's essays on pragmatism, ethical treaties on otherness and things, feminist writings on motherhood, and recent studies of posthumanism. Arguing humans imagine the cyborg in ways that are seriously limited by fear of the unknown and current understandings of science and technology, Yi identifies in gothic literature a practice of the beautiful that extends the operation of sensibility, heightened by gothic manifestations or situations, to surrounding objects and people so that new feelings flow in and attenuate fear. In science fiction, which demonstrates how society has accommodated science, Yi locates ethical corrections to the anthropocentric trajectory that such accommodation has taken. Thus, A Genealogy of Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre that helps envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Encoded with gothic literature's aesthetic embrace of fear and science fiction's ethical criticism of anthropocentrism, the cyborgothic retains the prospective nature of these genres and develops mothering as an aesthetico-ethical practice that both humans and cyborgs should perform.
Dracula
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Author : Bram Stoker
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-01-31
Dracula written by Bram Stoker and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with categories.
In the late nineteenth century, English solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountains near Transylvania to offer legal support and counsel to Count Dracula, who is interested in purchasing an estate in England. Within days, Harker learns the truth about this mysterious Count and realizes that all of the superstitious villagers he met on the way to Count Dracula's castle-all of the lore and legend about the undead-is strikingly real. As Count Dracula presses on with his plans to relocate to England, a group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing must work together to stop the Count from spreading the curse of the undead on English soil. First published in 1897, Dracula remains Bram Stoker's best-known work and one of the most-celebrated Gothic novels of the Victorian era. In addition to intriguing the reader with a tale of horror, Dracula offers a glimpse into social norms and mores of nineteenth-century England, including the role of women, societal conventions, and sexual taboos. It also showcases Victorian attitudes toward immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. This Bayley Street Press edition is a republication of a standard edition of Dracula published in 1897 by Archibald Constable & Company, London.
From Wollstonecraft To Stoker
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Author : Marilyn Brock
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
From Wollstonecraft To Stoker written by Marilyn Brock and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James and Charlotte Bronte. Each essay explores their use of archetypal Gothic elements, such as dark secrets and forbidden sensations, to depict nineteenth-century attitudes to class, gender, race, colonialism and imperialism.
Exploring The Horror Of Supernatural Fiction
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Author : Miranda Corcoran
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-02
Exploring The Horror Of Supernatural Fiction written by Miranda Corcoran and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.
The Watter S Mou
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Author : Bram Stoker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Watter S Mou written by Bram Stoker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fishing villages categories.
The Watter's Mou' is a novel by Bram Stoker, first published in 1895. It is the story of a woman who is in love with a man whose job it is to stop smuggling by poor fishermen like her father. Stoker believed in progress and took a keen interest in science and science-based medicine. Some Stoker novels, such as The Lady of the Shroud (1909), represent early examples of science fiction. He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism, but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific method over superstition. Stoker counted J.W. Brodie-Innis, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, among his friends and hired member Pamela Colman Smith as an artist for the Lyceum Theatre, but no evidence suggests that Stoker ever joined the Order himself.