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This article analyses the imagery of jewels and precious metals in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897), noting that the Transylvanian landscape is associated with silver, the point of Dracula's landing in Britain with emerald and jet, and the vampires themselves with pearl, ruby, gold, silver and sapphire. I claim, in particular, that these connections further evoke the vampires' penetrative hardness.

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This page is a summary of: Ruby Lips and Whitby Jet: Dracula's Language of Jewels, Gothic Studies, May 2018, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.7227/gs.0039.
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