Chapter 4
'In the rapture of my enormous humiliation you live your warm life...' — the fusion of erotic surrender and predatory consumption that anchors queer readings.
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From Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla is celebrated as a foundational work of lesbian gothic literature; the erotic intensity between Carmilla and Laura is explicit by Victorian standards.
Chapter 4
Laura's ambivalent response: 'I did feel, as she said, \"drawn towards her,\" but there was also something of repulsion' — the canonical statement of attraction-repulsion.
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