Year 12 context for gothic

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Example of female gothic

Emily St. Aubert in The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe

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Dracula adaptation with Keanu reeves

1992 Francis Ford Coppola

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Sadeian woman quote

praised "His refusal to see female sexuality in relation to its reproductive function"

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Theory of Evolution book

On the origin of species (1859)

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Who wrote degeneration

Max Nordau

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Who made the theory of the male gaze

Laura Mulvey

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In what book had homosexuality previously been linked with vampirism

Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

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Homosexuality in other prevalent gothic novels (not Carmilla)

Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde = gay and homoerotic tension between Dorian and Basil

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Context for objectification - Carter

1968 protest against the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City to protest objectification and exploitation of women

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What is the "fallen women archetype"

refers to a woman who has lost her virtue through sexual activity outside of marriage, often leading to societal ostracisation and moral condemnation - Eve is the original fallen woman

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Sort story that proposed writing as a form of protest against the patriarchy, urging women to use it as a tool to reinvent themselves

Helene Cixous 1975 'The laugh of the Medusa'

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Why might Mina's mark disappear but the TBC's protagonist's doesn't

Carter may be signifying that the effects of patriarchal rule are permanent and should not be forgotten

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"an appetite like a cormorant" literary context to match

John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost - Satan infiltrates the Garden of Eden in the form of a cormorant end embodying greed and insatiable desire

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Dracula absent from chapter 4 onwards epistolary novel form and terror

Despite Dracula disappearing from the narration explicitly from chapter 4 till much later his presence in his absence similar to the assigned quality of 'immanence' of God, also builds terror

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name count uses whilst travelling

"Count de Ville" - devil

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explain quote "I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave"

This alludes to imagery of Christian conversation and submitting to God's will. However it is hyperbolically satirised with the use of 'slave' being a sort of antonym for disciple or follower. - the capitalization of "You" adds to characterisation as ant-christ

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A05 evidence on Dracula as Jewish

Tod Browning's 1931 adaptation of Dracula where the count wears a star medallion which has been interpreted as the Star of David.

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Novel that links sexuality and vampirism

Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" where characters are seduced before being killed

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What is a spermatic economy

medical theory that most victorians believed in - sees semen as a valuable like currency or commodity

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What is a Sanguine Economy

importance of blood in maintaining health and vitality, and it can also be tied to notions of racial purity and the fear of foreign blood mixing.

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What was anonymously published

1890 anonymous publication of 'My Secret Life' , an autobiography recounting the author's most adventurous sexual experiences - shows sexual repression of the time

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What may have inspired the Count necrophiliac rape of the snow child

influenced the the high-profile case of the Moors Murders in 1970s Britain.

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Who does Carter quote in TBC

Charles Baudelaire symbolic poet "there is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer"

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Who called Carter a pseudofeminist

Andrea Dworkin

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example of conservative women still as victims of the patriarchy

Phyllis Schlafley, american attorney and anti-feminist

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What did Rousseau believe

claimed that everyone was born free and equal, but societies imposed a sense of ownership over resources and divisions of labour, which caused conflict and social injustice. He held that inequality was artificial

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What novel did Carter engage with Rosseau's ideas in and how do we know she was a keen reader of his

"Heroes and Villains" - made apparent in her unpublished journals

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What was the first gothic novel

Walpole's "Castle of Otranto" in 1764

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What is the earth mother

represents a powerful, sometimes sinister, figure connected to nature, fertility, and the primal forces of the earth, often portrayed as a nurturing but potentially destructive force

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Examples of the earth mother

TBC mother and the earl king

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Gothic novel on Ambrosio

Matthew Gregory Lewis "the monk"

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Who tempts Ambrosio and what is she really

Matilda and she is an agent of the devil

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Edgar Allen Poe Gothic short story

The oval portrait (1842) passive wife is obedient to her husband who is a painter and dies as a result

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Narrative poem that affirmed traditional Victorian values

The Angel in the House, by Coventry Patmore (1854)

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Other books where Carter uses children in promiscuous roles

'The Magic Toyshop (1967) and 'Wise Children' (1991)

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literary context on vampirism and syphilis

The Vampyre (Short story by Polidori) vampirism is seen as contagious which may reflect the spread of syphilis in the 1890s