There are analogs - golems, robots - but not quite a mythos
Enh If it's there in Stoker, it's deep, deep subtext At no point does the book actually have the brevet transition into realizing that the British House of Lords are the same thing as Dracula
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I mean it doesn't really have to. That would have been clear to anyone reading it back then — nobility was nobility, and most of the landed gentry in Europe were at least distantly related to each other. It reads a lot more strongly that way if you're not American, I think?
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Yeah, I mean see my comments elsewhere. The story is, basically, one set of wealthy people protecting their turf from another one because the other one is a foreign undesirable.
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It's New British Bourgeois vs Old Continental Aristocracy, essentially. Dracula is painted as orientalist and foreign and weird, but part of the horror is how easy it is for "feudal" bloodsucking to happen to Fine Upstanding People Like Us. That's a class-system anxiety too!
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