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Attempt to define the vampire genre by tracing it's history. Discuss also the importance of generic conventions and audience expectation. When discussing vampire genre we must first try to define what a genre is. A genre is a particular type of media commodity. It ....

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.... genre even today. First published in 1897, the story is told through the diaries of a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, his fiancee Mina, her friend Lucy Westenra and Dr John Seward, the superintendent of a large mental asylum at Purfleet in Essex. It begins with Harker's journey to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania in connection with the Count's purchase of an estate adjoining Dr Seward's asylum. After various horrifying experiences at the castle Harker makes his way to a ruined chapel, where he finds fifty great wooden boxes filled with earth recently dug from the graveyard of the Draculas, in one of which the un-dead Count is lying. These ....