Julia Margaret Cameron's medieval vision was seen through a Victorian lens, and Ms Humphreys is, similarly, right not to mimic the style of the 19th-century novel.

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There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".

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American litigation has gotten nearly as bad as the British system of justice in the 19th Century when Charles Dickens wrote the lawyer-bashing novel Bleak House.

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