Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman (TBC)
‘A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster’
Patricia Duncker (TBC)
‘Carter is rewriting the tales within the strait-jacket of their original structures’
Lucy Armitt (TBC)
TBC is made up of ‘Gothic tales that prey on the restrictive enclosures of the fairy story’
Helen Simpson (TBC)
‘human nature is not immutable/fixed irretrievably, that human beings are capable of change’
Andrea Dworkin (TBC) - anti pornography activist
‘pseudo-feminist’
Ray Cluley on Mina
‘virginal, pure and dutiful woman’
Hollingsworth: Dracula is a successful horror story because it…
‘plays on human fears about basic parts of mortal life, such as sexuality and death’
Bruno Starrs (Dracula)
‘Dracula is the figurative anti-christ’
Fergus Parnaby (Dracula)
‘One of the primary features of Stoker’s vampires is their propensity towards sexual lust’
Kieran O’Kelly (both)
‘The texts challenge us to cross the boundaries of orthodoxies’
Ann Radcliffe (Gothic)
Terror ‘expands the soul’ and horror ‘contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them (the faculties)’
David Punter, of the Gothic castle
image of going downwards is like the ‘image of going into the recesses of one’s own mind’
Fred Botting (Gothic)
presence of monsters explains how cultures need to invent others in order to maintain limits
Robert Kidd (Gothic)
‘the fact that the foreign could exist in the reader’s own neighbourhood made it all the more frightening’
