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Brasov is a city in Romania’s Transylvania region and is surrounded by the country’s Carpathian Mountains. With a population of over 300,000, it is considered the 7th largest city in the country. It is located approximately 176 kilometers from the capital of Bucharest.
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One piece of context worth thinking about is that travel writing as a genre was immensely popular in the 19th century. Increased mobility of people combined with more avaliable mass media and interest in “exotic” places created a boom in exploration texts. These were both real published accounts of figures like Dr. Livingston in Africa and Peary in the Arctic and fictional texts that show European travelers in exotic settings.
For example, Around the World in Eighty Days was published in 1873. And that is far from the only one, but it is a good example of what this genre looked like when fictionalized.
This genre was meant to both provide a kind of armchair tourism for the average reader and to subtly affirm that the West was more advanced and exotic cultures were a charming thing to be looked at. The colonial underpinnings of the genre ranged from subtle to explicit depending on the writer and the setting.
In regards to Dracula, this is an important point in how Stoker is using the epistolary format to subvert expectations. Jonathan’s journal reads like the average travel writing account in the first couple entries. He is both charmed and intrigued by the exotic, but is also quick to note backwardness and superstition when he sees it. This would have been a much more familiar genre to a Victorian reader than it is now. So the turn to horror is really effective and questions whether any of the assumptions of the superiority of the Western observer are true.
For a modern analogue, think of him as a travel vlogger backpacking through Asia and documenting his journey.
Discovered a cute café called ‘Le Fonte’ located near the Jade Buddha Temple in Anyuan road! If you enjoy quite places I suggest you visit this café! It’s tranquil ambience will leave you wanting to come back again and again!
Hello I just thought that I would create a blog and document my life to try and help myself and other s if possible
Also I am so sorry if there is any errors in my typing I am dyslexic 😭😭
Ok so it’s April 9th, 2024 and it’s currently 7:36 pm and school was very crazy today with testing and I did not feel good at all.
I was at school super tired from testing and just over it already when I was just in my phone and people where screaming in my ear while I had a crazy headache and I just didn’t feel very good and I still have that pounding headache just trying to cry it away TT
When I got home my mom got mad at me for being annoying and I know it was a mean thing to do but all day I was so stressed but my mom get me Mexican food and she knows I hate that and I get sick about every time I eat it and I just told her I don’t want to eat it and I went up to my room and looking back at it, it was pretty mean but I can tell her favoritism with my brother because when I cry I’m “too sensitive” and I need to grow up but when my brother cried because he got a paper cut she was trying to calm him down and help him.
I stayed in my room the most of the day I tried to find some food but couldn’t find anything but I felt better being by myself but I am so anxious to get back to school tomorrow because I have no friend and I feel like a complete loser that just day dreams all day but it’s what it is.
Today was basically just a vent and I’m super sorry for that but I just thought I would share my days and start a new series and I hope you have an amazing dayyy!!
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Brasov is a city in Romania’s Transylvania region and is surrounded by the country’s Carpathian Mountains. With a population of over 300,000, it is considered the 7th largest city in the country. It is located approximately 176 kilometers from the capital of Bucharest.
It’s no secret that Brasov is…