Gothic Lit Unit 4 Review

What is the study of physiognomy?

Through his novel Dracula, Bram Stoker explored Victorian stereotypes about men and their role in upper-class society.

What is the theory of “miasma”?

During the Victorian Era, women who wanted more schooling and to work outside the home fit the concept of:

In what location does the novel Dracula begin?

In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, the vampire turns Jonathan Harker and his fiancée Mina into vampires.

Oscar Wilde believed that life imitates art, artists create stories from imaginations that their audiences try to mimic.

Some modern vampire stories have wide-ranging appeal to audiences of all ages, including young children.

What benefit resulted from the pseudoscientific belief in the miasmatic theory?

What is the epistolary style of writing?

What teaching was challenged by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution?

What writer is credited with writing the first vampire story?

 Which of the following is NOT used as a religious symbol or motif in Dracula?

 How can mimesis be defined?

 Lycanthropy refers to the supernatural belief that humans can change into wolves.

According to the theory of contagionism, how are diseases spread from one person to another?

Who argued that life imitates art more than art imitates life?