Subverting Anthropocentrism: Fear, Enslavement, and Reversed Colonisation in Dracula
By: Younes Poorghorban, Ali Ghaderi and Yazdan Mahmoudi
References
- Aroca, Aurora Murga. “Neither Animal nor Human: An Ecogothic Reading of the Monstrous Hybrid in Dracula, The Beetle and The Snake Lady.” Pangeas: Revista Interdisciplinar De Ecocrítica, vol. 2, 2020, pp. 89–100. DOI: 10.14198/pangeas2020.2.07
- Bassan, Elena.
Late-Victorian Britain and ‘the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization’ in Bram Stoker’s Dracula . 2020. Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, MA thesis. - Baudrillard, Jean. The Mirror of Production. Translated by Mark Poster, Verso, 2019.
- Birge, Barbara B. “Bram Stoker’s Dracula: The Quest for Female Potency in Transgressive Relationships.” Psychological Perspectives, vol. 29, no. 1, 1994, pp. 22–36. DOI: 10.1080/00332929408404813
- Bollen, Katrin, and Raphael Ingelbien. “An Intertext that Counts? Dracula, The Woman in White, and Victorian Imaginations of the Foreign Other.” English Studies, vol. 90, no. 4, 2009, pp. 403–420. DOI: 10.1080/00138380902990226
- Carroll, Joseph. “The Ecology of Victorian Fiction.” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, pp. 295–313. DOI: 10.1353/phl.2001.0024
- Clark, Timothy. Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Davies, Ben.
“John Rawls and the ‘Veil of Ignorance’.” Introduction to Ethics: an Open Educational Resource, edited by Noah Levin, N.G.E. Far Press, 2019, pp. 92–97. - Domínguez-Rué, Emma. “Sins of the flesh: anorexia, eroticism and the female vampire in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2010, pp. 297–308. DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2010.494346
- Dönmez, Başak Aǧin. “A Gothic Ecocritical Analysis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” EFD/JFL, vol. 32, no. 2, 2015, pp. 15–24.
- Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2004. DOI: 10.4324/9780203644843
- Hamilton, Clive, et al., editors. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch. Routledge, 2015. DOI: 10.4324/9781315743424
- Houston, Gail Turley.
From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction . Cambridge University Press, 2007. - Hughes, William. Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction and Its Cultural Context. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
- Karahan, Zumre. “A Posthuman Vampire: Rational Science and Racial Views in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Social Sciences Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, 2020, pp. 73–80.
- Kopnina, Helen, et al. “Anthropocentrism: More than just a Misunderstood Problem.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, vol. 31, no. 1, 2018, pp. 109–127. DOI: 10.1007/s10806-018-9711-1
- Lyotard, Jean. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- McShane, Katie. “Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We Care?” Environmental Values, vol. 16, no. 2, 2007, pp. 169–185. JSTOR,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30302252 . - McWade, Chris. “Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Saviour: Nietzschean Reading.” Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 29, no. 4, 2013, pp. 36–57. DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2013.856658
- Mewald, Katharina. “The Emancipation of Mina? The Portrayal of Mina in Stoker’s Dracula and Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Journal of Dracula Studies, vol. 10, 2008, pp. 1–10.
- Pinkerton, Lauren. “Archiving Dracula: Knowledge Acquisition and Interdisciplinary.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 43, no. 4, 2021, pp. 417–432. DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2021.1888532
- Prescott, Charles E., and Grace A. Giorgio. “Vampiric Affinities: Mina Harker and the Paradox of Femininity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 33, no. 2, 2005, pp. 487–515. JSTOR,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25058725 . - Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Universal Law Publishing Co Ltd., 2013.
- Senf, Carol A. “Dracula: The Unseen Face in the Mirror.” The Journal of Narrative Technique, vol. 9, no. 3, 1979, pp. 160–170. JSTOR,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30225673 . - Simkins, Ronald A. “The Bible and Anthropocentrism: Putting Humans in their Place.” Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 38, no. 4, 2014, pp. 397–413. JSTOR,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43895115 . - Smith, Julie. “Masculine Spatial Embodiment in Dracula.” English Academy Review, vol. 32, no. 1, 2015, pp. 124–139. DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2015.1034950
- Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Oxford University Press, 1983.
- Süner, Ahmet. “The Representation of Time, Modernity and its Prehistory in Dracula.” Studia Neophilologica, vol. 90, no. 1, 2018, pp. 56–70. DOI: 10.1080/00393274.2018.1434421
- Taylor, Jesse Oak. “Where is Victorian Ecocriticism?” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 43, no. 4, 2015, pp. 877–894. DOI: 10.1017/S1060150315000315
- Washington, Haydn, et al. “The Trouble with Anthropocentric Hubris, with Examples from Conservation.” Conservation, vol. 1, no. 4, 2021, pp. 285–298. DOI: 10.3390/conservation1040022
- Williams, Daniel. “Victorian Ecocriticism for the Anthropocene.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 45, no. 3, 2017, pp. 667–684. DOI: 10.1017/S1060150317000080
- Winandhini, Rheavanya, and Rahmawan Jatmiko. “New Woman as Seen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Lexicon, vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 207–214. DOI: 10.22146/lexicon.v7i2.66570
- Wyman, Leah M., and George N. Dionisopoulos. “Transcending the Virgin/Whore Dichotomy: Telling Mina’s Story in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Women’s Studies in Communication, vol. 23, no. 2, 2000, pp. 209–237. DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2000.10162569
- Wynne, Catherine. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. DOI: 10.1057/9781137298997
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.209 | Journal eISSN: 2184-6006
Language: English
Page range: 4 - 4
Submitted on: Jan 31, 2025
Accepted on: Jan 8, 2026
Published on: May 19, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
© 2026 Younes Poorghorban, Ali Ghaderi, Yazdan Mahmoudi, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.