Gothic critics

Question 1

“Lucy becomes a voluptuous,

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unnatural parody of the New Woman as sexual decadent” (Buzwell)

Question 2

(argues that Stoker is a feminist as) “The novel (Dracula) falls clearly into two parts,

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each half centered around a different kind of woman.” (Demetrakopolous)

Question 3

“The fight to destroy Dracula and restore Mina to her purity is

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a fight for control over women”

Wasserman

Question 4

(Carter’s work features women) “who grab

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their own sexuality and fight back” (Gamble)

Question 5

(Harker is the only character who is) “an object of the vampire’s seduction and

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an agent of his destruction” (Kuzmanovic)

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Dracula is a “ powerful authority figure

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who has few restraints” (Holte)

Question 7

“Mina is afforded far more freedoms than Lucy because

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she does not give in to pleasure” (Polonsky)

Question 8

Staking etc. “obsessive sadistic substitutes

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for sexual gratification” (Hindle)

Question 9

“In many Gothic novels the castle represents a threatening,

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sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted.” (Bunten)

Question 10

Gothic heroine”a whimpering, trembling, cowering

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little piece of proprietary” (Moers)

Question 11

Beauty is “ the virginal

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object of barter” (Byrant)

Question 12

“render woman as automata,

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puppets and femmes fatale.” (Wisker)

Question 13

”pleasure belongs to the eater,

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not the eaten.” (Atwood)

Question 14

“The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjackets

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of history and ideology and biological essentialism.” (Simpson)

Question 15

In Carter’s tales “it is women who become

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active and saviours, not the men” (Makinen)

Question 16

Girl in the werewolf “less concerned with sexuality

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than with survival” (Simpson)

Question 17

Harker’s wielding of the kukri is a “symbolic castration

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of his enemy to regain his lost virility” (Frost)

Question 18

The “sexual implications” of Arthur’s murder of Lucy are

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“embarrassingly clear”, even “gang rape” (Showalter)

Question 19

“the death of a beautiful woman” is

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the “most poetical topic in the world” (Poe)

Question 20

Dracula “anxiously defends the social, political and sexual ideas of

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conservative, middle-class, masculinist ideology” (Mohr)

Question 21

There is a set of dichotomies between “the institutional

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and the profane” in Gothic novels (Green)

Question 22

Dracula titillates readers with “fears of the repressed

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and the occult” (Jann)

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Flight into occult is “a reaction to the predominance of science” representing

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“a search for faith” (Buzwell)

Question 24

Harker’s diary is a means of “repose” against madness and the dissolution of the self

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Attempts hermeneutics to achieve some mastery over the world (Holden)

Question 25

In Castle Dracula “the occult and rational

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work in harmony” (Holden)

Question 26

Dracula = “imperial

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Gothic” (Brantlinger)

Question 27

“the Victorians entertained an increasing fear

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of reversed imperialism” (Bartel)

Question 28

“The Gothic castle or house is not just an old and sinister building ;

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it is a house of degradation, even of decomposition.” (Baldick)

Question 29

“In much early Gothic fiction, darkness is the locus of torment,

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punishment, mystery, corruption and insanity.” (Cavallaro)

Question 30

“[Urban Gothic] narratives as sprawling and labyrinthine

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as the districts which they haunt.” (Mighall)

Question 31

“The Gothic imagination turns upon a fear of object, in particular the individual’s

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anxiety of becoming subject to forces beyond its control” (March-Russell)

Question 32

“The gothic put many of its participants back

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in touch with the supernatural” , “powerful undercurrent of belief” (Stevens)

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“embrace the practices

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usually termed occult” (Bloom)

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“an infusion of the sacramental and the supernatural that elevates superstition

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over the reasoned and ordinary religious focus” upheld by most of Stoker’s characters (Newcomb)

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“Stoker’s fiction reflects the tension between

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science, mesmerism and the occult” (Wynne)

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[epistolary novels, for example] “gives it a greater sensational immediacy

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…and authenticity” (Mighall)

Question 37

“it is more the emotional crisis of the protagonist

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that generates narrative momentum” (Chaplin)

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The Enlightenment’s “scientific and technological innovation” had made it

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“comparatively ‘safe’ to indulge in irrational fantasies”

Stevens

Question 39

The gothic contains “a collection of popular prejudices’ towards Roman Catholicism,

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including “Idolatry” and “indoctrination” (Stevens)

Question 40

“mesmerism and occult largely emanate

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from the margins of the imperial centre” (Wynne)

Question 41

Gothic revival time of “deep and

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sustained religious revival” (Luckhurst)

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“an often subversive

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reworking of the Romantic aesthetic” (Chaplin)

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“Terror was akin to the sense of wonderment

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and awe accompanying religious experience.” (Botting)

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Horror “eschewed the subtleties of the technique of terror,

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preferring to revel in graphic depictions of violence” (Chaplin)

Question 45

The genre employs “frequent insistence

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on horrific detail” (Stevens)

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Carter challenges male authorship of horror, and seeks

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to redefine the gothic genre entirely rather than simply subvert it (Jowett)

Question 47

Pain and terror are “capable

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of producing delight” (Burke)

Question 48

Evidence of a “pattern of

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suppressed guilt” (Mighall)

Question 49

“Strangeness lies within

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as much as without” (Botting)

Question 50

“unconscious as a deep repository of repressed

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memories or impulses, the archaic underworld of the self”(Hogle)

Question 51

The Gothic developed as an “intersection of religious belief,

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aesthetic taste and political inclination” (Botting)

Question 52

“Duplicity is an essential part

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of existence in late-Victorian society” (Mighall)

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“The gothic tradition… grandly ignores

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the value systems of our institutions” (Carter)

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Carter had an “intensely

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visual imagination” (Simpson)

Question 55

The Gothic “mutates

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to reflect the times in which it lives” (Buzwell)

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“there exists a Dracula

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within us all” (Carter)

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“at the heart of the Gothic text

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is the tension provided by the possible violation of innocence” (Kidd)

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“scandalous challenge to socially

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normative constructions of the individual” (Holden)