![]() Dracula (1897), of course, notoriously codifies the maternal as consuming through the figures of the Weird Sisters and the Bloofer Lady, whilst simultaneously exploring and repeating the idea of returning to the imprinting womb, whose bite begins at the vampiric vagina dentata. Stoker’s lesser-read Gothics express Victorian patriarchal gynaecological anxieties of maternal imprinting, the notion that the pregnant mother’s sensory experiences and traumas would physically mark her unborn child in utero. Birthmarks, the indelible touch of the devouring mother, are seared into the skin of the child. ![]() ![]() Like the bite of the vampire, the theme of marking punctuates Stoker’s work. ![]()
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