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Báthory Erzsébet - Elizabeth Bathory: Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Bathory, and Dracula (Elizabeth Miller) |
 | | His claim that Bathory played a major role in the genesis of Stoker's novel is astonishing, given that it is difficult to argue even for a minor role. |
| | In that Renfield seeks physical immortality, McNally argues, he is a "kindred spirit to the Elizabeth Bathory of legend, who sought to conquer the aging process" and "Like Elizabeth, Renfield is subject to fits similar to a certain form of epilepsy" (101). |
| | Before you know it, Bathory and Vlad have become twin prototypes for all vampires, as in this doubly nonsensical statement: "The first reported vampires were real historical figures in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Eastern Europe: Elizabeth of Bathory and Vlad the Impaler" (Brownworth and Redding ix). |
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