Bloody Chamber critical nuggets

• Botting 'heroines in particular could experience _________________ and _______________'

  violence...and freedom
• Botting: 'the genre is about excess...excessive _______, exessive ________, excessive _________ and excessive _______'

  imagery, rhetoric, narrative, effect
• Botting: 'women become _______________________________ rather than victims of _______________________________________________'

  agents of their own destiny, patriarchal power and ideology
• Botting: "A fiction of ___________________ desire"

  unconscious
• Bowen: ''novels full of perverse, weird and ________________________________________'


  dangerous kinds of sexuality
• Bowen: 'the great criminals or transgressors cursed, obscene or satanic, they seem able to break _____________________________________'

  norms, laws and taboos at will
• Bowen: "Sexual difference is thus at the heart of the Gothic, and its plots are often driven by the exploration of questions of ___________________________________________________________________"

  sexual desire, pleasure, power and pain
• Burke: terror- 'productive of the strongest emotion which the ___________________________________________________'

  mind is capable of feeling
• Buzwell: society viewed the New Woman as women that wanted "to break free from the ________________________________________________________________________ by a male-dominated society."


  intellectual and social restraints imposed upon them
• Carter: ''literature must not be a ____________________________, it must be ______________________''

  'comfort blanket' 'transgressive
• Dixon: ''Gothic fiction was the fiction of __________''

  shame
• Harper: 'Gothic novels can thus be read as a _____________________________ to contemporary _____________________________________ events'

  'coded response' 'political and social
• Kidd 'the rational world is left far behind, ______________________________________'

  'reason no longer rules
• Kiely: 'Gothic fiction was not only about confusion, it was __________________________________________________'


  written from confusion
• Levy: 'a common gothic theme is the aristocratic man hunting ____________________________________________________________'


  women of non-aristocratic origin
• McGrath 'hell is decidedly on earth located within the vaults and _______________________________________________'

  'chambers of our own minds
• O'Kelly: 'the settings externalise the _____________________________ of the characters'


  inner demons
• Punter 'The villain is always the _________________________________________________ character'

  most complex and interesting
• Punter: 'Gothic emerges from the ____________________________'


  depths of our psyche
• Whitehead: 'the purpose of entertaining and thrilling the reader can be both ______________________________________________'

  disturbing and comic
• Punter: 'its power is derived from its _________________________'

  dealings with taboo
• O'Keefe: Gothic will 'place the reader in a liminal state between our real world and the world of ____________________________________'


  imagined fears and horrors
• Punter: 'the threat seen to be posed to _________________________________________ by the emergence of the figure of the 'new woman'


  established patriarchal traditions
• Water: 'the Gothic is an exercise in _____________________________________ and ___________________________________________________________'

  'masculine anxieties' 'nationalist paranoia
• Thomas 'the vampire myth emerged as an exemplary format for the treatment of ________________________________'.

  taboo subjects