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William Gladstone and the theatre [PDF]

, 2011
<p>This article discusses the various links between 19th century British Prime Minister William Gladstone and the theatre, his understanding of its function in society and his role in shaping the argument for a subsidised National Theatre. It links
Heinrich, A.
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Scandinavian Transformations of Dracula

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020
A couple of years after the publication of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel Dracula, different versions were published in one Icelandic and two Swedish newspapers. The Icelandic version could be a translation of the shorter Swedish version.
Ingmar Söhrman
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The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S202-S215, September 2025.
Abstract This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th‐anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio‐legal studies in the United Kingdom have evolved alongside each other since the birth of the Journal of Law and Society in 1974.
BARBARA HUGHES‐MOORE
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For the Dead Travel Fast: la importancia del Drácula de Bram Stoker en la época victoriana y su recepción en la literatura y el cine [PDF]

, 2016
A.E.Ext. 85-08This report is part of your Cooperative Extension Farm Business Management Program. Each year dairy farmers throughout New York State submit business records for summarization and analysis.
Fuentes Muñoz, Alba M.
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Literatura española de terror: leyendo algunos realtos breves verdaderamente estremecedores

Verba Hispanica, 2006
No son muchas las publicaciones y ediciones que hagan referencia a la existencia de una literatura española de terror. Para el lector español, el terror más conocido desde el punto de vista literario, suele ser el procedente de otra literaturas europeas
Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga
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Monstrous Mobility in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula [PDF]

, 2019
This thesis explores Late Victorian Gothic texts that are central to theories on monstrosity in terms of mobility by examining Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula. The goal of this project is to survey the ways in which two exemplary monsters, Mr.
Weese, Autumn Danielle
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Dracula and the rights of hospitality: The axis of evil [PDF]

, 2015
The present essay explores the archetype of Dracula, as well as its connection to hospitality. Although abundant literature has described the historical context that led Bram Stoker to present this personage, less attention has been paid to the ...
Korstanje, Maximiliano E.
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Eye dialect: translating the untranslatable [PDF]

, 2009
The term ‘eye dialect’ was first coined in 1925 by George P. Krapp in The English Language in America (McArthur 1998). The term was used to describe the phenomenon of unconventional spelling used to reproduce colloquial usage. When one encounters such
Brett, David Finbar
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Substitution and Complementarity in the Consumption of Alcohol, Cannabis, and Opium

Health Economics, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 827-854, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Understanding the behavior of populations of drug consumers has been and remains a topic of keen interest. Using a unique dataset on 25 districts from Bengal, India, from 1911 to 1925, we analyze whether populations of consumers treat alcohol, cannabis, and opium as economic substitutes or complements in a legal regime.
Siddharth Chandra, Gaurav Doshi
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Contagions

Testo & Senso, 2022
A hundred years separate two of the most successful masterpieces of English Gothic Fiction: The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker.
Paolo Pepe
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