... previous literary works, The Picture of Dorrian Grey and Beowulf are found through out the novel. Stoker also relied heavily on the conventions of Gothic fiction, a genre that was extremely popular in the early nineteenth century. Gothic fiction traditionally included elements such as gloomy castles, sublime landscapes, and innocent maidens threatened by evil. Stoker modernizes this tradition in his novel, moving from ... ...

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... literature of other kinds. She shows here how a "lack of variety in reading" may produce an expectation that life will be as depicted in the works (in this case romantic fiction) to which one's reading is restricted. Austen completely ridicules gothic literature through Catherine's thoughts concerning the Tilney's home at Northanger Abbey. The satire of conventional literature is ubiquitous throughout the ... ...

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