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Lacan and fantasy literature : portents of modernity in late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction

Summary: 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 Dracula, 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 thereby changing our conception of reality. It is imaginary devices such as vampires and ape-men, which in conjunction with Lacanian theory say something additional of the truth about - primarily sexual - aspects of human subjectivity and culture, repressed by the contemporary hegemonic discourses.

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ISBN: 9789004336575
ISBN: 9789004336582
ISBN: 9004336583
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1 Lacanian Readings of Dracula2 Dracula as Totem and Taboo; 3 The Fantasy Area: Transylvania and the Loss of the Symbolic; 4 Dracula's Castle and Freud's Reception Hall; 5 In the Castle: Dracula as Jonathan Harker's Double; 6 Van Helsing and the Return of the Master; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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