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-Read this story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm
-Read the attached file.
– Write 350 words essay response to these question:
•Although vampires have a long history in Slavic
folklore, literature didnt really pay them much
mind. Carmilla is one of the first vampires in literature,
and the first with a long-ish story about her. For this
post, think about the context and history of this story.
You can answer these questions or come up
with your own related to the period in which this story
was written:
As Amy Leal points out, homosexuality was
taboo in the 19th century, especially lesbianism.
Find instances in the story of Carmillas
homoeroticism. Use Leal as a starting point and
the internet for additional research and look up
19th century laws about sex. How does making
Carmilla an evil vampire relate to her lesbian
attentions to Laura?
Vampires, maybe more than other specters,
have a lot of rules. In Interview with a Vampire
Hunter, sunlight will kill vampire; in Twilight, it
just makes them sparkle. In Supernatural, you
have to cut off their heads; in Strigoi you have
to cut out their hearts. Find an example of a
“rule” about vampires in Carmilla and compare
it to other pop culture depictions of vampires.
The short serialized pieces that became Carmilla
were written in 1871-1872. Use the Internet to
look up what was happening in the UK and the
world during this period. What were the
controversies and issues of the day? How might
they related to Carmilla?
-Write >50 words response to each of these 2 thread (please write them separately):
1. It’s interesting to me that while we may consider
Dracula the standard by which all vampire stories are
a derivative of, in actuality it was written many years
after the actual first vampire novel The Vampyre, by
John William Polidori in 1819. In Amy Leal’s
“Unnameable Desires in Le Fanu’s Carmilla” they
mention that Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about a
female vampire in Christabel (Leal, 39). While it may
have influenced Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla,
Coleridge’s work is not a novel, but a long poem.
Carmilla was written in 1872, which was 26 years
before the very popular Dracula, by Bram Stoker in
1897. I would say that in some ways Dracula is not
nearly as interesting as Carmilla.
We’ve already read and discussed Victorian ghost
stories written by Edith Wharton. The Victorian era is
from 1837 to 1901 according the Wikipedia. This
period was named after Queen Victoria and her
influence on society was significant. The rules for how
one acts in society, are particularly important for the
elite classes. The main characters in Carmilla are
either from old families or have titles such General or
Doctor to signify their social importance versus the
common peoples. It’s telling that Carmilla says about a
local girl who died “She? I don’t trouble my head about
peasants. I don’t know who she is” (Le Fanu). Even the
vampires in this story appear to be classists.
2. Concerning the conflation of evil behaviors being
given to sapphic or queer people, this is a tactic that
has been used for many years across medias and
literatures. The “queer coding” of villains is prominent,
especially in mainstream media. Jafar from Aladdin is
slender and wears eyeliner. Ursula was inspired by a
drag queen. Doctor Facilier from Princess and the Frog
also wears makeup and is given a nonmasculine,
slender appearance. This, combined with showing
heroes in more stereotypically tradtional expressions
of heterosexual behavior, allows for a stark contrast in
aligning the traditional with the moral good and the
deviation as a wrong.

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