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Rebecca and TBC

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Olivia Cole

“Men are intrigued by and subconsciously desirous of sexual women, yet will simultaneously condemn free and open female sexuality in public”

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Judy Berman

“She can’t help but speak volumes about the social expectations and psychological pressures that govern women, men and the interactions between gender”

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Sowerby (TBC)

“Curiosity and disobedience are essential weapons from a woman to free herself from being infantilised by male control”

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

“Carter’s use of cultural and intertextual references reveals the historical depth and breadth of these sadistic visions of femininity”

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

“Some psychological thinkers … have interpreted the Bluebeard tale as a psychological punishment for women’s sexual curiosity”

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

“women’s curiosity was given quite negative connotations, whereas men with the same attribute were called investigative”

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

“The key represents the deepest, darkest secrets of the psyche. Bluebeard forbids the young woman to use the one key that would bring her to consciousness”

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Ray Cluley (TSC)

“…uses a Freudian focus to explore aspects of male power and desire and how these dictate female behaviours and appearance”

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Kimberley J. Lau (TLOTHOL)

“A young woman who exploits men’s sexual appetites in order to obtain her prey”

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Harriet Parks (TWW)

“The evil character is not the wolf but the people in the village”

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Helen Simpson

“The heroines of Carter’s stories are struggling out of the straitjackets of history”

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Patricia Dunker

“All men are beasts to women”

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Amy Taylor-Davis

“Transgression provides rich material for du Maurier, enabling her to illuminate dark desire and what happens when the private is made public”

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Amy Taylor-Davis

“Rebecca’s character is decidedly unfeminine according to gender expectations of the time”

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Amy Taylor-Davis

“In a modern novel, some of Rebecca’s behaviours would be lauded for challenging restrictive gender and class stereotypes”

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Laura Varnam

“Rebecca’s famous opening line, ‘last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again’, sets the scene for a novel in which dreams become nightmares, obsessions take root in the mind”

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Daphne Du Maurier

“A study in jealousy”