By Bram Stoker
Of the various admiring studies Bram Stoker's Dracula bought while it first seemed in 1897, the main astute compliment got here from the author's mom, who wrote her son: 'It is best suited. No e-book due to the fact that Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or certainly the other in any respect has come close to yours in originality, or terror.'
A renowned bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic story of the bloodthirsty count number Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil a while outdated but eternally new, endures because the imperative tale of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and wishes, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such legendary strength, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.
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35 In addition to the inward-directed function of group consolidation, these acts of collective violence had another, outward-directed side. The hajduks’ destruction of the vampire was also a blow aimed at Austrian authority figures. The amazement that Frombald and Flückinger record stemmed in large part from the insubordination of the peasants. The former states in his account that “the people grew more outraged than distressed” when he attempted to intervene: the officer feared that the villagers might turn their rage on him if he did not permit them to destroy the vampire.
The War of Austrian Succession (1740–48), which began on the pretext that Maria Theresa, as a woman, could not legitimately inherit the Habsburg throne, marked the emergence of Prussia as an international force of note. The theater of fighting rapidly expanded from Silesia to Bohemia and Moravia; seeking to obtain a balance of power favorable to their interests, all the major European states were soon involved. Thus, in both an immediate and a broad historical perspective, the vampire debates reflected past political problems, nascent conflicts, and crises yet to emerge.
In seinem Mund hab nicht ohne Erstaunung einiges frisches Blut erblickt, welches, der gemeinen Aussag nach, er von denen, 32 VAMPIRE COUNTRY: BORDERS OF CULTURE AND POWER durch ihme umgebrachte, gesogen. [ . . ] Nachdem nun sowol der Popp als ich dieses Spectacul gesehen, der Pövel aber mehr und mehr ergrimter als bestürtzter wurde, haben sie gesamte Unterthanen in schneller Eil einen Pfeil gespitzet, solchen, dem Todten-Cörper zu durchstechen . . 11 [After a subject by the name of Peter Plogojowitz had died, ten weeks past — he lived in the village of Kisilova, in the Rahm district — and had been buried .