Party News from the September 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard
Bill Martin will be speaking on Bram Stoker's Dracula and capitalist anxieties of consumption
Venue: 52, Clapham High Street,
Sunday 29th September 29th 6.30pm
The Vampire has emerged in literature as a symbol of desire and lust, the leering monster illicitly stalking into the maiden's bedchamber. Why are people repelled and attracted by the vampire? This talk will place this symbol into its historic context, looking at the class and national relations behind Stoker's classic novel, and relate them to the structures of desire/consumption within that book. It will also look at developments in the image of vampires and what they tell us about the changes in capitalistic imagination since Stoker's day.
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