transgression critics and quotes
unleashed sexuality (quote about Lucy)
"Lucy wenstenra, but yet how changed. the sweetness was changed to heartless cruelty and... voluptuous wantoness"
quote on Dracula
"amongst us... can command all the meaner things"
quote from the girl in company of wolves
"burst out laughing; she kn ew she was nobody's meat"
vampire women quote (seductive women)
"golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires... all three had brilliant white teeth... shone like pearls against... their voluptuous lips" - lascivious description
Critic of Carters writing
"pleasing her audience by providing them with a comfortably reassuring read did not feature on her list of priorities" - Sarah Gamble
intro - Lucasta Miller on transgression
"the dissolving of normative boundaries"
Helen Simpson on women in Carters stories
"the heroines of Carter's stories are struggling out of the strait jackets of history"
the snow child quotes
"thrust his virile member into the dead girl" (necrophile) (Carter creates a fear - despite second wave feminism and introduction to rape crime campaigns - 1973, she uses vile imagery and perhaps raises the fear of men in society.
Frayling on Bram Stoker creating Dracula
"when such a man as Bram Stoker is afraid... the charade stops and what you get is Dracula"
BBC 2020 Dracula series
Lucy uses a dating app
Critic on the seductive vampire women
Pektas: "The three vampires encountered in Draculas castle represent all the qualities a woman should not be"
what does Ray Cluely call Lucy?
blooper lady
Passive women in TLOTHOL (quote on passive woman)
the vampire is compared to humans: "no mouth to kiss, no hands... only the fangs and talons of a beast" - no vampiric capabilities
