Context Flashcards
1
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Invasion Literature
A
Gothis flourishes at time of social anxiety
HG WELLS - ‘War of The Worlds’ 1897
2
Q
Dracula Himself
A
Clever Warrior Evolving Cunning Dangerous (MAN's BRAIN)
German Spies, Invasion
3
Q
Criminology
A
New scientific way of testing (interested)
BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS
LATE 1900 Crime World (Jekyll and Hyde)
(Sherlock Holmes)
4
Q
Thatcher
A
1979 first female PM
‘Purge of the wets’
‘Spitting Image’ - pin striped trousers and cigar
5
Q
Anxieties of Decay
Due to 1890s Decadence
A
Manhood - stiff upper lip
Womenhood
Conservative agenda (fear of ‘‘no change’’)
Victorian sentimentalism ‘‘domestic heroine’’ (Mina)
‘Home sweet Home’ (Victorian pieties)
COL all marry