Dracula- critics

Ray Cluley

'They are the epitome of the femme fatale, inspiring passion and desire whilst revealing and revelling in their own sexual power'- the brides of Dracula.

'Dracula is the ultimate patriarchal fantasy'

N.Ruddock

'Vampirism is Stoker's metaphor for the insidious destructiveness of all expressions of sexuality unsanctified by marriage'

Elaine Showalter

'The sexual implications... are embarrassingly clear... a collective male attack which could be characterised as 'gang rape'.

C.Bentley

'What is rejected or oppressed on a conscious level appears in a covert and perverted form in the novel'

Burton Hatlan

'Dracula is the 'other' that lurked just beneath the frontiers of Victorian middle-class consciousness'