It was astonishing to me how many tropes it appeared to anticipate, meaning only that it really created them. Plus it was better on women and what I would call postcolonialism if it weren't the actual height of the British Empire than many, many, many of its successors.
Indeed! (I once had to write an essay on something like that, but I have forgotten every word of it since. I really wanted to write something else, but it was one of those chosen essay things and I was never good at working out what I wanted to write, so always ended up doing something the teacher wanted me to write.)
I also think, now that I've read Dracula, that The Woman in White must surely have been an influence, but I have read a lot less on sensation, gothic and horror fiction, so I don't know if people have commented on that.
Was that Dan Simmons' Drood (2009)? If so, totally don't forgive Dan Simmons.
Yes! I am indeed never forgiving Dan Simmons. It was one of those books where I wasn't even glad I read it; my life would have been better if I hadn't!
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Indeed! (I once had to write an essay on something like that, but I have forgotten every word of it since. I really wanted to write something else, but it was one of those chosen essay things and I was never good at working out what I wanted to write, so always ended up doing something the teacher wanted me to write.)
I also think, now that I've read Dracula, that The Woman in White must surely have been an influence, but I have read a lot less on sensation, gothic and horror fiction, so I don't know if people have commented on that.
Was that Dan Simmons' Drood (2009)? If so, totally don't forgive Dan Simmons.
Yes! I am indeed never forgiving Dan Simmons. It was one of those books where I wasn't even glad I read it; my life would have been better if I hadn't!