midterm

Question 1

Define Domestic Ideology

Answer 1

idea that woman’s proper place and highest happiness is within the home

Question 2

Where is “the angel in the house” derived from?

Answer 2

coventry patmore’s 1854 poem of the same name

Question 3

What is “the angel in the house” used for?

Answer 3

for the victorian ideal of femininity, pure & innocent

Question 4

Status of women in the 19th century

Answer 4

man and wife are one person

Question 5

Define Pin money

Answer 5

woman get allowance from husband

Question 6

Define jointure

Answer 6

money set aside for wife after husband’s death

Question 7

Define coverture

Answer 7

husband has absolute authority over wife and owns her personal property, earnings, children and body.

Question 8

Act of 1870

Answer 8

wives wages didn’t become property of husband

Question 9

Act of 1882

Answer 9

if a woman owned property before marriage she still had it after marriage

Question 10

Act of 1893

Answer 10

Married women could have control of property acquired during marriage ex: inheritance

Question 11

Dracula was written by who?

Answer 11

Bram Stoker

Question 12

When was Dracula published?

Answer 12

1897

Question 13

Define Surplus women

Answer 13

not enough men for marriage so women emigrated to india or australia where more men were

Question 14

what innovation furthered women’s professions?

Answer 14

the type writer

Question 15

Professions that came along for women

Answer 15

journalism, theatre, and nursing

Question 16

When one becomes a vampire what are the effects?

Answer 16

Men act like women and women act like men and become more sexual

Question 17

Define Madonna

Answer 17

virgin mother

Question 18

How many times does Mina attack the New Woman?

Answer 18

Twice

Question 19

What is blood transfer defined as?

Answer 19

A sexual and maternal act

Question 20

Dracula film was directed by who and when?

Answer 20

John Badham in 1979

Question 21

Nosferatu film was directed by who and when?

Answer 21

F.W. Murnaw in 1922

Question 22

Bram Stokers Dracula was directed by who and when?

Answer 22

Francis Ford Coppola in 1992

Question 23

Define Gothic Novel

Answer 23

Characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudomidevil setting

Question 24

Define Epistolary novel

Answer 24

Novel written in the form of a series of letters