Dracula Lit Crit Flashcards
Allen - Mina who laughs
It is Mina who laughs at the new woman, and yet she herself could hardly be more of a new woman if she tried’
Alder - the sea and its weather
the sea and its weather provide storms, sunsets, and remote locales for sublime and terrifying experiences
Altick - There was something unpleasant
There was something unpleasant, even alarming, about strong-willed woman who insisted on using their minds’
Arata
The colonizer finds himself in the position of the colonized’
Creed - The Monstrous Feminine
The Monstrous Feminine is a women who may well be the castrator
Botting - The horror of the labyrinth
The horror of the labyrinth and its confusion of fears and desires lies in its utter separation from all social rules
Botting - Gothic becomes
Gothic becomes the fiction of unconscious desires and anti-social fantasias’
Botting - Gothic landscapes
Gothic landscapes reflect the emotions and despair of their protagonists.’
Bunten
The castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious, masculine world’
Craft - the vampiric kiss
the vampiric kiss excites a sexuality so mobile, so insistent, that it threatens to overwhelm the distinctions of gender
Craft - A woman is better
A woman is better still than mobile, better dead than sexual:
Dixon - on his darkness
On his (Dracula) darkness we can reflect any anxiety we wish’
Fitzsimons - his main theme
his main theme is taken from Irish history
Jenkins - the medium of
THE MEDIUM OF A TRANSGRESSIVE GENRE (to conceal homosexual fantasies)
Morris - sublime always implied
Sublime always implied the threat of lost control’
Pirie - Dracula represents
Dracula represents the submerged force of Victorian libido breaking out to punish the repressive society which had imprisoned it
Radcliffe - obscurity leaves
obscurity leaves something for the imagination to exaggerate.’
Rath - Vampire would pass
Vampire would pass quite unnoticed amongst that lot’
Robles - byronic hero
being both threat and saviour to her, and hindering her selfhood (byronic hero)
Dr Silva - Women pay
Women pay the price for male sin’
Stevenson - a monstrous father…..
a monstrous father, but also a foreigner, as someone who threatens and terrifies precisely because he is an outsider
Wasson - those forces in Eastern
Count Dracula ‘represents those forces in Eastern Europe which seek to overthrow, through violence and subversion (the west)’
Wasserman - The fight to destroy Dracula
The fight to destroy Dracula and to restore Mina to her purity is really a fight to control over women’
Woods - Dies on the cross…
Dies on the cross as Christ to cancel out the anti-Christ Dracula” (about QM)
