Dracula Critics

‘Dracula seeks to repossess the female body for the purposes of male pleasure and exchange’

lesbianism in carmilla corrected Signorotti

‘Stoker’s overriding concern is the threat of rampant female sexual desire’

Signorotti

‘the sexually charged female vampires receive most of Stoker’s attention’

Signorotti

‘Mina’s body becomes a male occupied zone’

Signorotti

All other vampires ‘merely repeat as diminished simulacra’ compared to dracula

Craft

‘sexuality so mobile and polymorphic that Dracula may be best represented as...floating dust’'

Craft

‘Dracula acts out the repressed desires of other character who wish to do what he can’

Roth

'The vampire kiss excites sexuality so mobile, so insistent, that it threatens to overwhelm the distinctions of gender'.

Luckhurst

‘the fight to destroy Dracula and to restore Mina to her purity is really a fight for control over women’

Wasserman

‘Stoker critiques the moral decay of society by illustrating the dire consequences for those who yield to their sexual desires’

Reeder

Jonathan enjoys a feminine passivity while awaiting the penetration of the vampiresses

Craft

‘the child of Dracula’s and Harker’s mutual desire’

Schaffer, since Mina drinks Dracula’s blood

‘a means to carry out the monstrous transgressive men’s homosexual intentions’

Muskovits

‘generates gender fluidity’

Muskovits about Dracula