Stoker copied travel-narrative racialized descriptions of the East

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The diversity of character which the various physiognomies present that meet you at every step, also tell of the many nations which are here brought together… . The slim, lithe Hungarian… the more oriental Wallachian, with softer, sensual air,—in her style of dress and even in her carriage unlike a dweller in the West; a Moldavian princess, wrapped in a Turkish shawl… . And now a Serb marches proudly past, his countenance as calm as a Turk’s; or a Constantinople merchant sweeps along in his loose robes and snowy turban. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 540

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• SHARE: For someone studying Stoker’s sources — the verbatim echo of Boner 1865.