Orientalist tropes of timelessness positioned the East as backward in Dracula

Evidence

The Orient’s poor relationship with time is another expression of Dracula’s Orientalist milieu, seen in the disintegration of old Europe, the lateness of the train, and Harker’s annoyance at it being late; all are “symptomatic of the ‘oriental’ ways of Europe on the wrong (that is, eastern) side of the Danube.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 534

Categorization

• XREF: The East’s ‘poor relationship with time’ is a classic Orientalist trope that connects to the reader’s earlier chapters on temporal/static Oriental portraits.