... , blending the violent and bloody attacks of the 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 seduced by the overpowering man, in what is thought ... love and his inhuman' need for blood, Gothic literature as a whole is a symbolic site where our culture wrestles with contradictions sometimes, as in the case of Rice's novel, i...

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