Sexuality In The 19th Century
According to the research by the Lois Drawmer in her essay “Sex, Death, and Ecstasy: The Art of Transgression”, most of the framework that remains today was depicted in the nineteenth century, when most of fundamental masterpieces of this genre were produced.
The dirt, the negativeness and the dehumanization surrounding the living time of the people in that period was strongly reflected and influenced the literature in a way.
So did the ideology of the female representation, consisting in an ominous view of their sexuality and nature. In contrast, the characterization of the female sexuality faced the coetaneous ideology by subverting the existing stereotypes: lascivious turned up into luxurious, infection into conversion, sinful act into …show more content…
Smith (1991). The impact in the mass media was maximize by the TV and film adaptation of these novels which became a cultural phenomenon, specially for the female public. Even before, as stated by Stacey Abbot in her research titled “Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980s and 90s”. This sprout began as an “experimentation with generic conventions” that helped to “redefine traditional vampire mythology” and supported by devoted people that converted this branch of literature into a massive …show more content…
It was in this period that Anne Rice wrote the first of her Vampire Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire, in which she reinvented the vampire story, this time from the vampire’s point of view. 3 Stephen King wrote Salem’s Lot, a contemporary reworking of Dracula and the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows improved its ratings by introducing the reluctant vampire, Barnabus Collins, into their storyline.”
Vampires. Amsterdam, NL: Rodopi, 2006. P.125. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 29 November 2016.
If one takes the original works and the latest and compares them, it is easy to identify the main differences between them. There has been a cultural adaptation so that the final output, the product (the piece of literary work) is more likely to fulfill the requirements or likes of current customers (the readers). That is the reason why one can find a reasonable evolution from the gothic settings, uncanny and gloomy portrayal of the characters and their dehumanized
The dirt, the negativeness and the dehumanization surrounding the living time of the people in that period was strongly reflected and influenced the literature in a way.
So did the ideology of the female representation, consisting in an ominous view of their sexuality and nature. In contrast, the characterization of the female sexuality faced the coetaneous ideology by subverting the existing stereotypes: lascivious turned up into luxurious, infection into conversion, sinful act into …show more content…
Smith (1991). The impact in the mass media was maximize by the TV and film adaptation of these novels which became a cultural phenomenon, specially for the female public. Even before, as stated by Stacey Abbot in her research titled “Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980s and 90s”. This sprout began as an “experimentation with generic conventions” that helped to “redefine traditional vampire mythology” and supported by devoted people that converted this branch of literature into a massive …show more content…
It was in this period that Anne Rice wrote the first of her Vampire Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire, in which she reinvented the vampire story, this time from the vampire’s point of view. 3 Stephen King wrote Salem’s Lot, a contemporary reworking of Dracula and the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows improved its ratings by introducing the reluctant vampire, Barnabus Collins, into their storyline.”
Vampires. Amsterdam, NL: Rodopi, 2006. P.125. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 29 November 2016.
If one takes the original works and the latest and compares them, it is easy to identify the main differences between them. There has been a cultural adaptation so that the final output, the product (the piece of literary work) is more likely to fulfill the requirements or likes of current customers (the readers). That is the reason why one can find a reasonable evolution from the gothic settings, uncanny and gloomy portrayal of the characters and their dehumanized