... various works dealing with vampires and including erotic aspects and, fortunately, superstition as a serious topic constitutes a minor aspect for writers of the occult. The vampire began to appear in English literature after 1800 and it achieved its first real literary importance with the publication of Sheridan Le Fanu's novelette, Carmilla, in 1872. This work of occult is seen as the direct ... period of Queen Victoria's regency from 20th June, 1837 until 22nd™™ January, 1901, the date of her death. Culturally, there was a transition away from rationalism of the Georgian period to...

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... one. Killing the Vampire is a metaphor of Apollinian reaffirming his supremacy on Dionisian. The Evil is forced back and put under control...until next time. Vampires and literacy themes Melancholia Romanticism found in vampires a strong symbol for melancholia. The gloomy state of near-life of this creatures, lost in a perpetual dawn of life, wandering forever in the world without any possibility ... the mixture of human and animal natures. In addition to Dracula some other characters have an important allegorical function: for example Van Helsing, the first "professional- Vampire Hunte...

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