Gothic Crit Quotes COPY Flashcards
What happens to passive women in the Gothic?
Buzwell
“Any women who remains passive under the male gaze invariably finds herself in peril”
What does vampirism do for the audience?
Buzwell
“The very concept of vampirism horrifies and fascinates in seemingly equal measure”
How are women presented in the gothic?
Farah
“Innocent, passive domestic figures that are inferior to men”
How women are treated in the gothic?
Ledoux
“Distressed female heroines are imprisoned in the domestic sphere and threatened with extortion, rape and forced marriage”
What is Dracula?
Elis
“Dracula is the master of boundary crossing”
How tension is provided in the gothic?
Kidd
“Tension is provided by the possible violation of innocence”
What the gothic allows the readers?
Kidd
“Sublimate their inner most desires”
Modern psychoanalytic reading of the gothic
“Empirical desire ends with eventual downfall”
On the appearance of the gothic villain and their relationship with horror?
Marshall
“The faces of the gothic villains…are not simply human faces but faces of evil”
What does a gothic villain do?
Valentine
“Deliberately violates standards of morality”
What is TBC an example of?
Bacchilega
“Hetero-sexual sadomasochism in the context of a socially exploitative and repressive society”
What does Carter’s feminism allow?
Wardle
“Empowers the heroine and undermines the violent sexuality of the dominant male”
What kind of setting is prominent in the gothic?
Bowen
“Characters in Gothic fiction often find themselves in a strange place”
It is “often threatening or violent, sometimes sexually enticing”
What does the gothic deal with?
Gates
“Thematically, the Gothic novel deals with the conflicts of good and evil”
What was the focal point of women’s roles?
Michie
“The female body was often the focal point for the construction of women’s roles”
What is the OG comment on terror and horror?
Radcliffe
“Terror and horror are so far opposite”
“the first expands the soul and awakens the faculties to a higher degree of life; the other contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them”
What does terror grow out of and what does horror produce?
Botting
“Terror grows out of suspense while horror produces disgust”
What is the purpose of the gothic castle?
Bunten
“In many Gothic novels, the castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted”
What did the Marquis do in TBC?
Priyanka
“aestheticized the suffering of women”
What is so odd about the gothic genre?
Bowen
“a particularly strange and perverse family of texts”
What does the gothic genre come close to?
Bowen
“the gothic can come close to pornography”
What is the primary aim of the gothic in regards to its readership?
Bowen
“The gothic intends to shock the reader out of the limits of their everyday life”
What is the gothic about at its core?
Heiland
“Gothic fiction at its core is about transgression of all sorts”
“national…social…sexual…identity”
What is the purpose of death in the gothic?
Davinson
“Death serves as the quintessential emblem of Freudian uncanny in the gothic”
