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I think there's a bit of passivity required in Carmilla since she's portrayed (from my reading, of course) as something other than a predator for the first half or so of the book - isn't Dracula's reveal as a monster fairly early in Stoker's text? I'm not sure how much more action could be added to the middle of Carmilla without it seeming trite or contrived.Hieronymous Alloy posted:or it's possible that it was too ahead of its time and the audience just didn't even clock what was going on at all ("oh, that's nice, they're going to be roommates.") Yeah, LeFanu definitely was not being subtle with the intimacy between Laura and Carmilla for the majority of the book, haha. I wonder if some of the reduction in success was also due to having a female PoV character/leads; I'm honestly not sure how much that'd influence its impact in the Victorian era book market, though.
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