English assimilation and invasion from outside the empire problems of the outsider in England in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Date of Award
2010
Degree Name
M.A. in English
Department
Department of English
Advisor/Chair
Advisor: Laura J. Vorachek
Abstract
Bram Stoker's novel Dracula introduces a number of issues related to immigration, immigrants, and contact between native born Britons and the non-English. Stoker uses a number of familiar genres and characters to give readers a sense of what is acceptably English, and challenges the perceptions of what makes someone English through Count Dracula, who assimilates Englishness in order to infiltrate and undermine English society. In doing so, Stoker points out xenophobic attitudes among the English by bringing someone from outside the British Empire into England and showing them to be capable of being more English than the English.
Keywords
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula Criticism and interpretation, National characteristics, English, in literature, Immigrants in literature
Rights Statement
Copyright © 2010, author
Recommended Citation
Moore, Jeffrey Salem, "English assimilation and invasion from outside the empire problems of the outsider in England in Bram Stoker's Dracula" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 302.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/graduate_theses/302
