Gothic Crit Quotes Flashcards
G. Buzwell on female passivity
“Any women who remains passive under the male gaze invariably finds herself in peril”
G. Buzwell on vampirism
“The very concept of vampirism horrifies and fascinates in seemingly equal measure”
L. Farah on women in the gothic
“Innocent, passive domestic figures that are inferior to men”
E. Ledoux how women are treated in the gothic
“Distressed female heroines are imprisoned in the domestic sphere and threatened with extortion, rape and forced marriage”
S. Elis on Dracula as a character
“Dracula is the master of boundary crossing”
R. Kidd how tension is provided in the gothic
“Tension is provided by the possible violation of innocence”
R. Kidd on what the gothic allows the readers
“Sublimate their inner most desires”
Modern psychoanalytic reading of the gothic
“Empirical desire ends with eventual downfall”
B. M Marshall on the gothic villain
“The faces of the gothic villains…are not simply human faces but faces of evil”
B. C Valentine on the gothic villain
“Deliberately violates standards of morality”
M. C Mellor on the role of the gothic victim
“Penetrated by a sexually attractive villain”
C. Bacchilega on what TBC is…
“Hetero-sexual sadomasochism in the context of a socially exploitative and repressive society”
H. Wardle on what Carter’s feminism allows.
“Empowers the heroine and undermines the violent sexuality of the dominant male”
J. Bowen gothic setting
“Characters in Gothic fiction to find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other, different, mysterious. It is often threatening or violent, sometimes sexually enticing, often a prison” – J. Bowen
D. B Morris on the sublime in the Gothic
“The eighteenth-century sublime always implied the threat of lost control”
“Gothic sublimity — by releasing into fiction images and desires long suppressed, deeply hidden, forced into silence — greatly intensifies the dangers of an uncontrollable release from restraint”
