This is typical of Gothic literature, and similar to "The Woman In White", which may have influenced Stoker. ... Bibliography Introduction to the Everyman edition of "Dracula" by Marjorie Howes "A beginner's guide to Vampires" by Teresa Mooney "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley ...
Their literature conveys an uneasy sense that their obsession with work was in part a deliberate distraction, as if Victorians were discharging public responsibilities in order to ease nagging doubts about their religious faith, about changing gender roles, about the moral quandaries of class privilege and imperial rule. ... Elaborating somewhat on these authors, I hope, gives the reader an insight to their wishes, their lives, and their beliefs, which were all central to their works, since they were all pivotal figures in this era, in regard to their contribution to the field of literature an...
Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...
