Dracula, Victorian Fishbowl, etc.

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Across
  1. 2. name of Mina's friend who Dracula turned into a vampire; we learn she has died at the start of chapter 14
  2. 5. Jonathan Harker's wife; she acts as the moral guide for the men in the novel
  3. 7. professor in the novel who figures out that Dracula is a vampire and writes to Mina that her friend Lucy is dead
  4. 9. during the late Victorian Era, England was experiencing a decline in their _____
  5. 10. the spread of disease or degeneration
  6. 11. the poorest, more urban side of London
  7. 12. the idea that certain spaces were "back in time" or declining
  8. 14. the richer and elite area of London
  9. 16. at the time, Victorians believed being poor was _____ and caused by biology, rather than being a social issue
  10. 21. characterized by going backwards in the evolutionary line
  11. 22. passed in 1864; women in public spaces could be arrested and subjected to medical exams
Down
  1. 1. there was a crisis of ____ at this time; men weren't fighting in wars or going on expeditions & almost half the Royal Navy had syphilis.
  2. 3. sexually transmitted disease brought to the West End
  3. 4. name for the end of the nineteenth century
  4. 6. type of Victorian woman who was a dutiful wife and mother
  5. 8. type of Victorian woman who had interests outside the home and was more independent than women previously had been
  6. 13. Victorians were anxious about the _____ binary and tried to cover up this anxiety by being hypermasculine or hyperfeminine
  7. 15. name of the central vampire in the novel
  8. 17. concept from Charles Darwin about the gradual development of living beings that also marked a cultural shift in Victorian society
  9. 18. Dracula is this kind of novel that is made up of letters, journal entries and newspaper clippings
  10. 19. type of Victorian woman who acted outside the norms of Victorian society
  11. 20. Dracula is the _____; means that he embodies difference and represents a threat to English society