A Victorian scholar's library with handwritten manuscripts, books, a brass lamp and a fire on a rainy night.

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Literature

Authors, invented worlds, symbolism and influence — the long conversation fiction holds with itself.

Scope of this wing

Literature, storytelling, fictional worlds, literary symbolism, influence and comparative readings.

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Dracula and the Making of the Modern Vampire

How did Bram Stoker's Dracula become the defining modern vampire? Follow the transformation of regional revenant beliefs through European reports, Gothic fiction, Victorian anxieties, theatre, film, and popular culture—and examine the evidence behind the legend of Vlad the Impaler.

Dracula
Bram Stoker
Vampire
Vampire Folklore

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The One Ring

A deep investigation into J.R.R. Tolkien’s One Ring and what it reveals about power, possession, domination, temptation, moral weakness, mercy, redemption, and the limits of human agency.

J R R Tolkien
The One Ring
The Lord Of The Rings
Middle Earth

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