He is a superman image with erotic appeal for women who find him totally alluring. He is either a reincarnation or he who has never died.
He is a man of tremendous brain and physical strength, with a strange dark heroism. : Epigraph, Christopher Lee: ∝racula offers the illusion of immortality, the subconscious wish we all have for limitless life. Peter Haining, The Dracula Scrapbook (London: Chancellor Press 1987), 158pp., ill. Senf, ed., The Critical Response to Bram Stoker, Greenwood 1993, p.7 quoted in Clare McCotter, MA Dip., 1997.) The Spectator (31 July, 1897): Mr Stoker has shown considerable ability in the use that he has made of all the available traditions of Vampirology, but we think his story would have been al the more effective if he had chosen an earlier period. (Rep. See also earlier statement of this position in Gothic Ireland, 2005 - as infra.
Such a view is in danger of distorting the picture of Anglican power in Ireland it may have been on the wane through the nineteenth century but its demise was long in gestation and long in arrival. (Jarlath Killeen, The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: History, Origins, Theories, Edinburgh UP 2014, p.48 available at Google Books - online accessed. I think we need to be careful in rushing too quickly to endorsing an argument that would somehow render Irish Anglicans so marginal to power in nineteenth-century Ireland that the realm of the Gothic and the occult substituted for real influence in the real world.
Gothic, in truth, may not belong to the dispossessed but to the paranoid possessors, the out-of-control controllers, the descending Ascendancy. Jarlath Killeen: The Anglican elite was still in social and political control this was, though, a control that was coming under increasing threat, and which always seemed to be on the verge of slipping away, especially in the nineteenth century.
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