Gothic critics

Question 1

Robert Kidd: “the ordinary is displaced by the

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extraordinary, the normal becomes the paranormal”

Question 2

Robert Kidd: “The unconscious is as vivid, vital and

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valid as the unconscious”

Question 3

Robert Kidd: “The reader is tasting forbidden fruit

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, opening dangerous boxes in the hope of enjoying the illicit pleasures made available to the protagonist”

Question 4

Robert Kidd: “Gothic texts alllowed readers to think

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the unthinkable; to sublimate their innermost desires within the pages of books” (Age of enlightenment”)

Question 5

David Punter: “The castle is gloomy, forbidding,

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a place where maidens find themselves perscuted by feudal barons”

Question 6

David Punter: “Those fantasies of lost freedom which women

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in particular have - or have had - before marriage”

Question 7

Robert Kidd: “Chastity was the object

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of the villain’s desire”