Dracula critics

Question 1

This is evident in Harker’s relationship with Dracula and the ‘brotherhood’ fighting him. At the time, most people were so paranoid that they distanced their relations with men.

Answer 1

Eve Kosofsky said that the novel drew a distinction between ‘virtuous homosocial brotherhood’ and ‘dangerous homosexual desire’.

Question 2

Roger Luckhurst’s description of a vampire’s kiss.

Answer 2

‘The vampire kiss excites sexuality so mobile, so insistent, that it threatens to overwhelm the distinctions of gender’.

Question 3

The Count infects the English bloodline both literally and metaphorically when he threatens the very existence of Victorian England

Answer 3

Stephen Arata - ‘vampirism [marks] the intersection of racial strife, political, upheaval, and the fall of empire’

Question 4

John Allen Stevenson

Answer 4

the actions of a vampire can be simplified down to a lack of control and perversion of human desires and instinct

Question 5

Christopher Bentley

Answer 5

Stoker avoids any overt treatment of the sexuality of his ‘living’ characters [who] are, both the men and the women, models of chastity

Question 6

Pektas

Answer 6

The three mistress vampires encountered in Dracula’s castle “represent all the qualities of how a woman should not be; voluptuous and sexually aggressive

Question 7

Terry Scarborough

Answer 7

anti-dialectical model through which the old becomes the new