... vampires with a passionate yearning for sensual experience in mysterious night-time settings. Laced throughout this gothic novel arise many of these sexual expressions, however, despite this underpinned sexuality there remains a conservative ideology of woman subversive to man; the idea of the pure woman being ... the modern Gothic enabling characters, such as Lestat, to work through evil and darkness to arrive at a personal moral code that can help him attain some sort of victory. Gothic literature is indeed seen as a process of cultural self-analysis, representing the real world ... a...

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