Tag: Nineteenth Century Literature

Book Review: By Gaslight by Steven Price

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“He had long yellow teeth, a wide face, sunken eyes, pupils as dark as the twist of a man’s intestines.” – Steven Price, By Gaslight STEVEN Price’s By Gaslight is a sprawling, atmospheric historical fiction novel that immerses readers in the thick, sooty fog of London in 1885. It delves deep into the hidden chambers of […]

Reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula Through a Queer Lens

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BRAM STOKER’S Dracula is a late nineteenth-century gothic novel—or horror if it pleases you—that’s intrigued me for decades, or “oceans of time,” as Count Dracula would say. Dracula, the work itself, is akin to the vampire’s esoteric, complex, and polymorphic state. There are numerous ways to deconstruct this book to uncover and interpret multiple meanings and […]