Dracula Critics

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Punter
‘Dracula is above all concerned with the braking of taboos’
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Punter
‘He functions as the catalyst for transgression in others’
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Botting
Stoker’s novel subordinates’ female sexuality to a masculine perspective’
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Botting
‘Uncannily straddling the borders between life and death and thereby undoing a fundamental human fact’
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Arata
‘The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised, the exploiter becomes exploited, the victimiser victimised’
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Simpson
‘It is this lack of agency in her own destiny that is the truest tragedy of Lucy’s story’
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Punter
‘Gothic texts of the time repeatedly produce powerful and sexually aggressive females and present them as as alien or monstrous’
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Stoker
‘The count is simultaneously a historical and modern threat’
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Hindel
‘Sex was the monster that troubles stoker the most.’
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Roberts
‘Dracula embodies the fear of the unknown and he personifies the nothing in the darkness that keeps children awake at night’
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Gates
‘Lucy is an inversion of the modest and virtuous Victorian women, she becomes sexually aggressive and anti-maternal’
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Punter
‘The myth in Dracula is an invasion of Christianity’
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Card 2

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‘He functions as the catalyst for transgression in others’

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Punter

Card 3

Front

Stoker’s novel subordinates’ female sexuality to a masculine perspective’

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Card 4

Front

‘Uncannily straddling the borders between life and death and thereby undoing a fundamental human fact’

Back

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Card 5

Front

‘The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised, the exploiter becomes exploited, the victimiser victimised’

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