What have literary critics read into the vampirism in Stoker’s “Dracula” ?

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Which of the following best explains the treatment of the heroine in “The Mysteries of Udolpho” ?

A. The heroine’s fantasies about the castle are combined with her fear of violation. B. She is excluded from the novel’s violent disturbances. C. She is excluded from the general sense of isolation in the novel. D. The heroine is robbed of psychological complexity by focusing only on horror....

“A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?

A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play...

According to Ellen Moers, how does Radcliffe’s heroine differ from the typical Gothic woman ?

A. Emily ends up happily married. B. Emily’s sense of decorum seems to falter late in the novel. C. Emily is a sensible rather than defenseless woman. D. Emily provides a unique example of a weak woman....

What literary convention is used pervasively in “The Mysteries of Udolpho” ?

A. Satire B. First-person narration C. Realism D. The uncanny doubling of characters...

When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?

A. People are foolishly superstitious. B. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world. C. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination. D. The personification of nature is regressive....