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*21 tension btwn novel form and narrative form ("ch 2" / "JH's journal (cont.)")
 
*21 tension btwn novel form and narrative form ("ch 2" / "JH's journal (cont.)")
 
*22, 24 descriptions of the count's appearance
 
*22, 24 descriptions of the count's appearance
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59 younger
 
*26 dracula's English library  
 
*26 dracula's English library  
 
*30 per penguin note, Harker's Kodak camera puts the narration at least in 1888
 
*30 per penguin note, Harker's Kodak camera puts the narration at least in 1888

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General Notes

  • it's hard to tell at a glance but it appears that in the late c19 Romania was an independent kingdom but Transylvania as a region was part of Austria-Hungary until WWI - cf Wiki Lands of the Crown of St Stephen
  • 11 he's pretty anxious from the get go
  • 21 tension btwn novel form and narrative form ("ch 2" / "JH's journal (cont.)")
  • 22, 24 descriptions of the count's appearance

59 younger

  • 26 dracula's English library
  • 30 per penguin note, Harker's Kodak camera puts the narration at least in 1888
  • 32-3 no reflection and the incident with H's razor
  • 41 Dracula climbing the wall
  • 43 Hamlet -- not even a complete ref to Shakespeare, familiarity is assumed (and fits with journal form too)
  • 44-6 the count's 3 women
  • 52 count dresses as harker
  • 53 embodied dust motes/hypnotism
  • 57 allusion to Pope's translation of Homer

Theme Tracking

Narrated reading/writing

As opposed to narrational writing, which is the whole framing form

Materiality

Technology

Information, communication, else

States of consciousness

Nation/Empire

History