AO5 gothic component

F. Botting (objectification of women under patriarchy, in Dracula)

… subordinates feminine sexuality to a masculine perspective in which women serve as objects of exchange and competition between men.'

Griffin (repressed sexuality/breaking taboos)

'The worst horror [Victorian England] could imagine is … the released, transforming sexuality of the Good Woman.'

Burton Hatlon - Dracula as the 'other’

"dracula is physically 'other'; the sexuality that Victorian England denied...

Greg Buzwell on Stoker and the vampire

"Stoker uses the figure of the vampire as … a shorthand for many of the fears that haunted the Victorian fin de siècle"

Andrew Green on Carter and boundaries

"Carter constantly challenges where the boundary lies".

Jeff Vandermeer on Carter's female characters

"[Carter's] characters are forever escaping, socially, mentally or physically, the traps laid by men"

Robert Stevenson Brown on Carter and Symbols

"updating the symbolic order so that it reflects the modern social order"

Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

"[Women are] confined then in their cages like the feathered race"

Cluely

"[Dracula is] the ultimate patriarchal fantasy"

Carter about Marquis

“[Marquis] would not be the enemy of women“

genre, Botting, too much

“the genre is about excess” (imagery, rhetoric, narrative).

Botting - what dominates the genre

“Uncertainties about the nature of power, law, family and sexuality dominate gothic function”

Punter about ghosts

“ghosts and haunting are figures arising from our psychological past, figures of fear”

Cristina Bacchilega about heroes and villains

"One of them must die in order for the other to continue existing."