ࡱ> 352] bjbjzpzp . b b $888LLL8 L h$o!%$0888___|88___৳XWLr0 U%dU%4U%80"_X U%B : Name: Dr. Maeve Tynan Affiliation: English, Paper title: The Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram Stokers Dracula and Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray The modernist novel is characterised by its obsession with knowledge and its attendant anxiety about the loss of reliable epistemological coordinates. As such, the central, and often futile, quest of the novels protagonist represents an attempt to penetrate the heart of darkness and return to a world of certainty and stability. In racial terms the colonial Irish represent an obstacle to epistemological certainty in that they are both white and native simultaneously. The white native can slip unseen into civilised society, threatening corruption, contamination and the potential for replication. This paper proposes that Bram Stokers Dracula and Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray stage modernist concerns of epistemological instability and racial degeneracy. Though ostensibly evading the contentious Irish Question in their novels, the title figures in each dramatises the concerns regarding the invisible Irish contagion. The Count, who arrives to London in a coffin ship, can walk its streets unseen so that no man stops if he sees me, or pause in his speaking if he hears my words to say, Ha, ha! A stranger!. In a similar fashion, Dorian Gray, the charmingly effeminate young man, can conceal his depravity in an attic. Wearing a mask of Victorian respectability, his sin is projected onto a portrait that is a replica of himself. In this sense, the progress of these figures reproduces that of their creators, who would likewise draw attention from their racial origins in an attempt to advance socially in the imperial metropolis. Furthermore, both Dorian and the Count then are implicated in processes of reproduction that are characterised as unnatural and aberrant, representing a threat to civilised society. Centring on issues of reproduction and diffusion, this paper argues that both novels present an ironic critique of fin-de-sicle concerns about the contamination of the Anglo-Saxon race and in particular the invisible threat of the Irish disease.  Consider the following report by novelist Charles Kingsley: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country [] to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.  Furthermore, the symbolic connection between Dracula and the Anglo-Irish landlord has already been explored by academics. Luke Gibbons The Gaelic Gothic, Joseph Valente Draculas Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness and the Question of Blood.  In his influential book Degeneration (1895), Max Nordau would actually suggest that the end of civilization was foretold in contemporary trends in the arts, including the emergence of Decadents such as Oscar Wilde.     #COP   G N a { | 4 W h q 3 4 ѺݩݞŞŞ}r}}}r}a!jhGIhA,0JOJQJUhGIhENOJQJhGIhOJQJhGIh%<OJQJhGIhUOJQJhGIhROJQJ!jhGIhw0JOJQJUhGIhpOJQJhGIhR6OJQJhGIhp6OJQJhGIhpOJQJhGIhGIOJQJhGIhGI5OJQJ&CgdA,$a$gdGI$a$gdGI 7$8$H$gdGIgdGI4 5 K L M cd  &'PIWɸɭߢwlahA,hqmH sH hA,hqB*ph"jhA,hq0JB*UphhA,hqCJaJhqjhq0JUhGIhpOJQJhGIhE.OJQJ!jhGIhE.0JOJQJUhGIhENOJQJhGIhOJQJhGIh%<OJQJhGIhA,OJQJhGIhUOJQJ$WhyһhGIhpOJQJjh!Uh!hE.hqmH sH hE.hq6mH sH hqmH sH hqjhq0JUhA,hqmH sH hA,hq6mH sH ,1h. A!"#$% s2&6FVfv2(&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv8XV~ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@_HmH nH sH tH @`@ NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH ZZ ^ Heading 1$<@&5CJ KH OJQJ\^JaJ DA D Default Paragraph FontRiR  Table Normal4 l4a (k (No List << ^Style1  CJ\tHZYZ p Document Map-D M CJOJQJ^JaJ>@> w Footnote TextCJaJ@&@!@ wFootnote ReferenceH*PK![Content_Types].xmlN0EH-J@%ǎǢ|ș$زULTB l,3;rØJB+$G]7O٭Vc:E3v@P~Ds |w< 3c >,  4 W  8@0(  B S  ?UmUmUm,,: 6BB 9*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagsplaceB*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagscountry-region=*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags PlaceType q x  P&7   |4D}V~. LLDPrx2, Rv^i^`.^`.^`.^`. ^`OJQJo( ^`OJQJo( ^`OJQJo( ^`OJQJo(hh^h`. hh^h`OJQJo( ~}| /!ENRX 2(A,r8UHXPUGcAzjkq|E.wp*UGIpE.^%<j (@ @UnknownG*Ax Times New Roman5Symbol3. *Cx Arial9Garamond5. .[`)TahomaACambria Math"1hKg'Kg'GIGI hh43qHP p0!xx kThe Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram Stoker s Dracula and Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray maeve.tynan Linda.Moloney4         Oh+'0 ,8DT lx   lThe Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram Stokers Dracula and Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray maeve.tynanNormalLinda.Moloney2Microsoft Office Word@@K@KGI՜.+,0h hp  H lThe Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram Stokers Dracula and Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray Title  !#$%&'()+,-./014Root Entry FpxX61Table%WordDocument.SummaryInformation("DocumentSummaryInformation8*CompObjr  F Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q