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Dracula context Flashcards

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Theosophy

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A popular belief in the Victorian Era which combined religion with science and the supernatural

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Translation of ‘Drac’?

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‘Dragon’ or ‘Evil’

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Cornerstone of Victorian Society?

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Motherhood

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Why were working class mothers seen as irresponsible and neglectful?

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Because the ideal of motherhood demanded women to be constantly present for their children

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Demeter:

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Greek goddess of grain, harvest and fertility

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Believed there was a direct link between sleepwalking and…

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madness

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7
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When was Oscar Wilde sent to prison for gross indecency?

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1895

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Who believed criminals were a throwback to a more primitive evolutionary phase?

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Lombroso, Italian criminologist

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What were prostitutes called?

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‘Fallen women’

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10
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Key red light district for prostitution?

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Soho

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There were more … than schools

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Brothels

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What act was passed to medically examine prostitutes due to fears of them bringing disease into the home?

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Contagious disease act 1864

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13
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Expectations of women?

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Emotionally weaker, no vote, uncomfortable and restrictive clothing

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Who coined the term ‘New Woman’?

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Sarah Grand 1894

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How was the ‘new woman’ viewed?

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  • Mannish intellectual standard
  • Oversexualised vamp
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Key features of the new woman?

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Financially independent, participated in politics, free and comfortable clothing, own decisions around marriage and children

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What was the immigration law used to limit Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and prevent criminals from entering?

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The Aliens Act 1905

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18
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Which novels are precursors to Dracula?

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‘Carmilla’, Le Fanu
‘Varney the Vampire’, James Malcom Rymer
‘The Vampyre’, John Polidori

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What was the original vampire?

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More animal than man, scavenger, no intelligence, called Nosferatu

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Who criticised the New Woman as destroying tradition?

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Nordau

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What was Invasion Theory?

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Fear the Empire might collapse and fear British culture would be destroyed by influence from colonised places

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Centre of the British empire?

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Queen Victoria and London

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When was the industrial revolution?

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1760 - 1840

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Technology used in Dracula?

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Camera (Kodak), postboxes, phonograph, typewriter, shorthand / stenography, hypnosis, telephone

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What was the belief a person’s appearance determined their characteristics - (popularised by Cesare Lombroso)?

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Physiognomy

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Characteristics of ‘born criminals’ (Lombroso)

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Sloping foreheads, Large eyebrows, protruding lips, wrinkles (both drac and van helping have large eyebrows)

27
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High forehead suggests …

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wisdom

28
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On the origin of the species?

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1859
Charles Darwin

29
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What spurred fears of degeneration?

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An increase in criminality

30
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The Angel in the House

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Poem by Coventry Patmore
around 1862

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Quote from The Angel in the House

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Man must be pleased but to please him is a woman’s pleasure

32
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Henry Irving

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Leading actor in Shakespearean company. Employer of Stoker. Worked for him for 28 years.

33
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Where was Stoker born?

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Clontarf near Dublin

34
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Who advised Stoker on medical aspects when writing Dracula?

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Thornley

35
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Stoker’s university?

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Protestant Dublin University

36
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Irish Literary Society

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Stoker helped to form in 1892

37
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Performance of Dracula at Lyceum Theatre

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‘Dracula, the Un-dead’

38
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Stoker’s original title for ‘Dracula’

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‘Un-dead’

39
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What were Stoker’s descriptions of Transylvania based on?

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Eastern European folklaw and geography he had researched

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Degeneration

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Cultural concept in the final decades of the 19th century. Stemmed from Darwinian ideas of evolution, that there was progressive evolution to higher forms and so there could be reverse evolution.

41
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The suffrage

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Began to champaign for the vote

42
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Aesthetes and Decadence

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New definitions of masculinity:
- Interested in Art and writing

43
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Dandy

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Effeminate men

44
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1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act

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Raised the age of heterosexual consent from 13 - 16

45
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Who suffered under the Criminal Law Amendment Act

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Oscar Wilde

46
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The Society for Psychical Research

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Researched into telepathy, hauntings, spiritualism and hypnosis

47
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Stoker’s opinion on Mesmer

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Didn’t like how he was blurring the lines between Christianity and superstitions with hypnotism

48
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‘New Imperialism’

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  • Occupation of Egypt
  • Competing with European Nations for Africa
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Jingoistic

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Cultural manner of extreme nationalism in which imperial rule and foreign policy is implemented and celebrated

50
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Ireland and home rule

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Stoker campaigned for home rule and independence from England.

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Mawkish

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Sentimental in a nauseating way

52
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Marxist literary reading of Dracula

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Allegory of situation of Irish under the rule of British.

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Bourgeois

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relating to the values and ideologies of the middle class

54
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Taboo

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Practices or behaviour which a particular society considers to be forbidden.

55
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Who was Van Helsing in an earlier draft?

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As Clive Leatherdale discovered, he was a detective and not a scientist.

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