All his teachers tell him that he's just grabbing stuff from long-disproved authors from hundreds of years ago and putting it together in contradictory ways, he's a total crackpot For the sake of the story this is necessary, Victor's discovery is more madness than reason
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The orientalism and foreignness as a source of fear in the text is definitely a thing, for sure. But the "it comes back with you" thing isn't /solely/ a fear of the Other. It's "oh shit they're like that here too".
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It's not like these interpretations are mutually exclusive or anything. I'm not arguing Stoker's novel doesn't use xenophobic coding for Dracula or it isn't a source of horror for a Victorian audience. But you're missing a lot if you discount the class read on it.
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It's also notable perhaps that the people fighting Dracula...a doctor, a lawyer/legal something or other, a Texas oil baron (basically), "Lord Holmwood", and another doctor, aren't exactly commoners/working class people fighting back against an established aristocrat.
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Hell if anything you can actually read the conflict as established British aristocracy/wealth/higher regraded occupations (and their American ally/enabler) fighting back against someone they see as a danger to their entrneched power. It's upper class vs. upper class in a way.
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