Year 12 context for gothic

Example of female gothic

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

Dracula adaptation with Keanu reeves

1992 Francis Ford Coppola

Sadeian woman quote

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

Theory of Evolution book

On the origin of species (1859)

Who wrote degeneration

Max Nordau

Who made the theory of the male gaze

Laura Mulvey

In what book had homosexuality previously been linked with vampirism

Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

Homosexuality in other prevalent gothic novels (not Carmilla)

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

Context for objectification - Carter

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

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

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'

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

"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

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

name count uses whilst travelling

"Count de Ville" - devil

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

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.

Novel that links sexuality and vampirism

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

What is a spermatic economy

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

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.

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

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.

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"

Who called Carter a pseudofeminist

Andrea Dworkin

example of conservative women still as victims of the patriarchy

Phyllis Schlafley, american attorney and anti-feminist

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

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

What was the first gothic novel

Walpole's "Castle of Otranto" in 1764

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

Examples of the earth mother

TBC mother and the earl king

Gothic novel on Ambrosio

Matthew Gregory Lewis "the monk"

Who tempts Ambrosio and what is she really

Matilda and she is an agent of the devil

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

Narrative poem that affirmed traditional Victorian values

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

Other books where Carter uses children in promiscuous roles

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

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