DescriptionFor your second major essay assignment, you will be writing on Bram Stoker’s Dracula through the lens of one of the following themes:Madness and Degeneracy Gender and SexualityModernity...

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DescriptionFor your second major essay assignment, you will be writing on Bram Stoker’s Dracula through the lens of one of the following themes:Madness and Degeneracy Gender and SexualityModernity and TechnologyGothic GenreColonialism and OrientalismYour main objective in this essay is to make an argument about the meaning or significance of the theme you select in the novel. As with your first essay, you will advance your argument through careful close reading, but this assignment further requires you to incorporate two sources to situate your claim within a critical conversation. For this assignment, I’ve selected the two sources you should use for your theme. All of these sources are accessible through the Bakersfield College Library page. Keep in mind that you do not have to agree with the arguments in the two sources you are given! You might agree with both, disagree with both, or only agree with one of them. Regardless, you should engage with the sources. If you have a different interpretation, explain why. If you agree with the source, build on it by giving additional examples. RequirementsYour essay should be 4-5 pages, not including works cited. It should be double-spaced and formatted to MLA style. You will be graded according to the following criteria: argument, analysis, source engagement, organization, and writing mechanics. Draft Due: 10/26Final Paper Due: 10/29Assigned SourcesBelow are the sources you should use according to the them you select:Madness and Degeneracy1) Author: Valerie PedlarChapter: “The Zoophagous Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula”Book: The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian FictionAccess: JSTOR22) Author: Leila S. MayArticle: ‘Foul things of the night': Dread in the Victorian BodyJournal: The Modern Language ReviewAccess: Gale Literature Resource CenterGender and Sexuality1) Author: Barry McCreaArticle: Heterosexual Horror: Dracula, the Closet, and the Marriage PlotJournal: Novel: A Forum on FictionAccess: Academic Search Complete (through EBSCOhost)2) Author: Carol A. SenfArticle: ‘Dracula’: Stoker’s Response to the New WomanJournal: Victorian StudiesAccess: Academic Source Complete (through EBSCOhost)Colonialism/Orientalism1) Author: Duncan LightBook Chapter: “The Dracula of Literature”Book: The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in RomaniaAccess: Ebook Collection2) Author: Raphaella Delores GomezBook Chapter: “Dracula Orientalized”Book: Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the ArtsAccess: Ebook CollectionTechnology1) Author: David PunterBook Chapter: Chapter Three, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Tradition, Technology, Modernity”Book: Post/modern Dracula : From Victorian Themes to Postmodern PraxisAccess: Ebook Collection2) Author: Leah RichardsArticle: “Mass Production and the Spread of Information in "Dracula": "Proofs of so wild a story."Journal: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920Access: Academic Source Complete (through EBSCOhost)Gothic Genre1) Author: William Hughes


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For your second major essay assignment, you will be writing on Bram Stoker’s
Dracula
through the lens of
one
of the following themes:



· Madness and Degeneracy


· Gender and Sexuality


· Modernity and Technology


· Gothic Genre


· Colonialism and Orientalism



Your main objective in this essay is to make an argument about the meaning or significance of the theme you select in the novel. As with your first essay, you will advance your argument through careful close reading, but this assignment further requires you to incorporate two sources to situate your claim within a critical conversation. For this assignment, I’ve selected the two sources you should use for your theme. All of these sources are accessible through the Bakersfield College Library page.



Keep in mind that you do not have to agree with the arguments in the two sources you are given! You might agree with both, disagree with both, or only agree with one of them. Regardless, you should
engage
with the sources. If you have a different interpretation, explain why. If you agree with the source, build on it by giving additional examples.




Requirements



Your essay should be 4-5 pages, not including works cited. It should be double-spaced and formatted to MLA style. You will be graded according to the following criteria: argument, analysis, source engagement, organization, and writing mechanics.




Draft Due:
10/26



Final Paper Due:
10/29





Assigned Sources



Below are the sources you should use according to the them you select:



Madness and Degeneracy


1) Author: Valerie Pedlar
Chapter: “The Zoophagous Maniac: Madness and Degeneracy in Dracula”
Book:
The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction

Access: JSTOR



2) Author: Leila S. May
Article: ‘Foul things of the night': Dread in the Victorian Body
Journal:
The Modern Language Review

Access: Gale Literature Resource Center


Gender and Sexuality



1) Author: Barry McCrea


Article: Heterosexual Horror: Dracula, the Closet, and the Marriage Plot
Journal:
Novel: A Forum on Fiction


Access: Academic Search Complete (through EBSCOhost)



2) Author: Carol A. Senf
Article: ‘Dracula’: Stoker’s Response to the New Woman
Journal:
Victorian Studies

Access: Academic Source Complete (through EBSCOhost)



Colonialism/Orientalism



1) Author: Duncan Light


Book Chapter: “The Dracula of Literature”
Book:
The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania

Access: Ebook Collection



2) Author: Raphaella Delores Gomez


Book Chapter: “Dracula Orientalized”


Book:
Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts

Access: Ebook Collection



Technology



1) Author: David Punter


Book Chapter: Chapter Three, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Tradition, Technology, Modernity”


Book:
Post/modern Dracula : From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis

Access: Ebook Collection



2) Author: Leah Richards


Article: “Mass Production and the Spread of Information in "Dracula": "Proofs of so wild a story."


Journal:
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920



Access: Academic Source Complete (through EBSCOhost)



Gothic Genre



1) Author: William Hughes


Book Chapter: Ch. 2: Language, Style and Form


Book:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Reader’s Guide

Access: Ebook Collection




2) Author: Andrew Smith


Book Chapter: Chapter 3: Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900


Book:
Gothic Literature

Access: Ebook collection











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Answer To: DescriptionFor your second major essay assignment, you will be writing on Bram Stoker’s Dracula...

Azra S answered on Oct 25 2021
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Message on Characteristics of Sexes
in Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’
Bram Stoker’s Dracula has been a story full of mystery, gothic, horror and adventure. This is the general impression we get, when we read the story from the point of view of entertainment. The complicated meanings twisted into the intricacies of the story remain alien to us until we unfold the complicated characters of the story. Every story conveys a message to the reader, some explicitly, some implicitly. Dracula, within its complicated plot, discovers the theme of gender and sexuality in both straightforward and controversial ways.
Dracula was authored at a time when the role of women was fast-changing. The traditional woman, whose role was house-keeping, mothering and who was subservient to man was dying into the role of a modern, more financially independent and working woman. The story Dracula features two types of women- the women of the castle, who are open, sexually appealing and vulgar and Mina and Lucy, who are conservative and family-oriented women, looking into the prospects of marriage. The women of the castle are dead, signifying the death of the traditional women and their transformation into vampires is the transformation into the New Woman.
In amplifying this view, Stroker has used Lucy who gets transformed into a vampire and moves from being the traditional woman to a New Woman.
While some have argued that Stroker was a closeted man, the allegations seem exaggerated as we look through his personal life and relationships. He was a man with deep respect and love for women. We can see that in the fact that he has dedicated most of his writing to women. We find he has heroines who are strong, dedicated and learned women, much like Mina Harker.
Senf describes the female vampires as-
“aggressive, inhuman wildly erotic and motivated only by an insatiable thirst for blood” (34).
These creatures are portrayed as very sexy and provoking, with “white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips” (Dracula, 51).
“She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as though I have come to do murder… she was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so...
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