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Rebecca and TBC

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Olivia Cole

ā€œMen are intrigued by and subconsciously desirous of sexual women, yet will simultaneously condemn free and open female sexuality in publicā€

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Judy Berman

ā€œShe canā€™t help but speak volumes about the social expectations and psychological pressures that govern women, men and the interactions between genderā€

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Sowerby (TBC)

ā€œCuriosity and disobedience are essential weapons from a woman to free herself from being infantilised by male controlā€

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

ā€œCarterā€™s use of cultural and intertextual references reveals the historical depth and breadth of these sadistic visions of femininityā€

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

ā€œSome psychological thinkers ā€¦ have interpreted the Bluebeard tale as a psychological punishment for womenā€™s sexual curiosityā€

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

ā€œwomenā€™s curiosity was given quite negative connotations, whereas men with the same attribute were called investigativeā€

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Harriet Parks (TBC)

ā€œThe key represents the deepest, darkest secrets of the psyche. Bluebeard forbids the young woman to use the one key that would bring her to consciousnessā€

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Ray Cluley (TSC)

ā€œā€¦uses a Freudian focus to explore aspects of male power and desire and how these dictate female behaviours and appearanceā€

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Kimberley J. Lau (TLOTHOL)

ā€œA young woman who exploits menā€™s sexual appetites in order to obtain her preyā€

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Harriet Parks (TWW)

ā€œThe evil character is not the wolf but the people in the villageā€

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Helen Simpson

ā€œThe heroines of Carterā€™s stories are struggling out of the straitjackets of historyā€

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Patricia Dunker

ā€œAll men are beasts to womenā€

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Amy Taylor-Davis

ā€œTransgression provides rich material for du Maurier, enabling her to illuminate dark desire and what happens when the private is made publicā€

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Amy Taylor-Davis

ā€œRebeccaā€™s character is decidedly unfeminine according to gender expectations of the timeā€

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Amy Taylor-Davis

ā€œIn a modern novel, some of Rebeccaā€™s behaviours would be lauded for challenging restrictive gender and class stereotypesā€

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Laura Varnam

ā€œRebeccaā€™s famous opening line, ā€˜last night I dreamt I went to Manderly againā€™, sets the scene for a novel in which dreams become nightmares, obsessions take root in the mindā€

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Daphne Du Maurier

ā€œA study in jealousyā€