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Before Reading Activities

Text Expectations (AO1, A02, AO3, AO4)

'Inspirational Works'

Young Dracula (CBBC series)

Dracula Untold (film)

Van Helsing (film)

Renfield (film)

During Reading Activities

Chapter 1 (AO1, AO2, AO3)

Shorthand

• Speed-writing: How to write shorthand, a skill worth knowing
• Modern symbol systems

Chapters 2 & 3 (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4)

Physiognomy

• Physiognomy, the Beautiful Pseudoscience
• The Connections between Physiognomy, Gericault, and Systematic Racism
• What is Racial Difference?

Chapters 6 & 7 (AO1, AO2, AO3)

Dialect

Dracula (audiobook)

Whole Text Activities

Context (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4)

Varying Interpretations

Genre (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4)

Changing Times

Attitudes and Values (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4)

Orientalism and 'the outsider'

• Orientalism, Edward W. Said
• The imperial Gothic, Suzanne Daly (British Library archive temporarily unavailable)
• Vampire and empire: Dracula and the imperial gaze

Critical Reception (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4)

Reviewer bias

• Review in the Manchester Guardian, 15th June 1897
• Review in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1st June 1897
• Review in the Glasgow Herald, 10th June 1897
• Review by DSL Reviews, 2017
• Book review by Lettie Ransley, 17th April 2011