Critical Nuggets

• Arata: 'Jonathan's diary is ............................................................'

  'a travel narrative in miniature
• Arata: 'Stoker gleaned his version of Transylvania entirely from travel narratives, guidebooks and various works on................................................'


  'Eastern European superstitions, legends and folktales
• Kostopoulos: 'Harker is.......................................'


  'effeminised
• Clueley: 'Jonathan's attraction to the female vampires illustrates the patriarchal...........................................'

  'hypocrisy regarding women's sexuality
• Frost: 'The paralysis that afflicts Harker as he lies back on a couch with his eyelids half-closed recalls the behaviour of .......................................................................................'

  'a virgin bride on her honeymoon
• Clueley: 'Harker remains the.................................................................'

  'passive receiver of this sexual attention
• Kostopoulos: 'Harker enjoys........................................................................................'


  'a feminine passivity as he awaits this erotic penetration from the female vampires
• Clueley: 'Harker is feminised.........................................................................................'

  'by his actions, or lack of them
• Bunten: 'At Draculas's castle......................................................................'

  'safety is illusory
• Groom: 'Dracula's red eyes and sharp teeth......................................................'

  'turn him into a carnivorous monster
• Groom: 'The vampire isn't spectral, it is not a phantasm, it is not ghostly, it's a very physical, tangible, corporeal..................................................................................'

  'creature. It has it's own appetites
• Jones: 'It is more suitable to refer to Dracula's power of influence as.....................................................................'

  'mesmerism rather than hypnotism
• Wicke: 'It is not possible to write about Dracula.....................................................'

  'without raising the sexual issue
• Roth: 'Vampirism is a disguise for..............................................................................................'

  'greatly desired and greatly feared fantasies
• Clueley: 'With his ability to usurp the female role of creating life, his bite of demonic procreation in creating more vampires, and with his consumption of blood as a........................................................................................................'


  'triumph over fears of menstruation, it may be that Dracula is the ultimate patriarchal fantasy
• Groom: 'The most useful way of thinking about the Victorian attitude to sex..............................................................................................................................................'

  'is that it's a metaphor for consumerism and the vampire is the arch- consumer
• Frost: 'The kiss of the vampire begot...........................................................................................'

  'more vampires; it was a ghastly parody of reproduction
• Craft: 'A mask of monstrous..................................................................................'

  'heterosexuality is imposed over same-sex desire
• Frost: 'The role of a sexual predator was supposed to be a male prerogative...............................................................................................................'


  'in an age where women were supposed to submit to sex not enjoy it
• Roth: 'The female vampires are...........................................................................................'

  'equivalent to the fallen women of the 18th and 19th century fiction
• King: 'In the England of 1897, a girl who...............................................................................'

  ''went on her knees' was not the sort of girl you brought home to meet your mother
• Frost: 'The three female vampires undermine.......................................................................'

  'the premise of female chastity
• Clueley: 'These women have the power to...........................................................................'


  'strip a man of his masculinity (and) are the epitome of the femme fatale
• Groom: 'Renfield is mimicking...................................................................................................'

  'a chain of predation
• Punter: 'Renfield is a parody of...................................................'

  'evolution
• Frost: 'Lucy is Dracula's...........................................................................'

  'means of entry into English society
• Buzwell: 'Lucy's moral weakness..............................................................................................'


  'allows Dracula to prey repeatedly upon her during the night
• Acton: 'As a general rule..............................................................................................................'

  'a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself
• Harper: 'The unsexed new woman..................................................................................'

  'would bring about the degeneration and ultimate extinction of the race
• Groom: 'Stoker is really at..............................................................................................................'

  'the edges of medical science
• Groom: 'Lucy is being used as...........................................................'


  ' a live experiment
• Groom: 'Lucy has a predatory.........................................................................'

  'sexual nature that certainly comes out when she's vampirised
• Buzwell: 'Lucy becomes a .........................................................................................'

  'parodic distortion of the Victorian idea of maternal femininity
• Groom: 'Blood transfusions are a form of sexual congress because the blood..................................................................'


  'is being mixed which effectively makes her a polyandrous
• Buzwell: 'After Dracula's attacks, Lucy becomes a voluptuous, unnatural parody of the.................................................................'


  'New Woman as a sexual decadent; a figure who preys upon children exhibiting no maternal instincts whatsoever
• Punter: 'The novel is persistently anxious about ..................................................................'

  'the breakdown of gender roles
• Buzwell: 'Lucy's ultimate dispatch - with her husband driving a stake through her heart...............................................................................................................................................'

  'while his friends look on- has the horrific feel of a rape
• Buzwell: 'Lucy's second death is not only a punishment for her sexual licentiousness, but also perhaps a punishment for her submission to the attentions of...............................................'

  'of a degenerate foreign aristocrat
• Tredell: 'It may be that Stoker's creation of Mina........................................................'

  'was an attempt to reconcile the conventional roles of the Victorian woman with the active qualities of the New woman
• Griffin: 'The worst horror in Dracula..........................................................................................'


  'is not Dracula at all, but the released transforming sexuality of the Good/New woman