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almahu_9948126495202882
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1 online resource (336 pages) :
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Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9781526102157 (eBook)
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9781526102164 (eBook)
Series Statement:
Manchester Gothic
Content:
'Open grave, open minds' features original research by leading scholars (Dr Sam George is a frequent commentator on the contemporary vampire; Dr Catherine Spooner, a pioneer of the study of Contemporary Gothic; and Dr Stacey Abbott is the author of the seminal work on the vampire in film and TV). The essays cover texts both familiar and unexpected, bringing debates around fictional vampires into the twenty-first century where they are currently enjoying a vogue. 〈BR〉〈BR〉This wide-ranging collection forms a coherent narrative which follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire’s origins in folklore and folk panics, tracing sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu’s Carmilla. Further essays discuss the undead in the context of Dracula, fin-de-siècle decadence and Nazi Germany together with early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola’s Dracula, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and much more. 〈BR〉〈BR〉The book is essential reading for those who wish to explore open graves with an open mind: scholars of literature and film, enthusiasts of all things vampiric and writers of Undead fiction. The Transylvanian notebooks of the award-winning novelist Marcus Sedgwick conclude the study, shedding light on recent trends in young adult fiction. Sedgwick lays bare the writing process for budding novelists and creative writers in the genre.
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This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in 'Byron' and 'Polidori' to Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of "Dracula", fin-de-siècle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola's film, 'Bram Stoker's Dracula', to 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of 'True Blood' and 'The Vampire Diaries'. Featuring distinguished contributors, including a prominent novelist, and aimed at interdisciplinary scholars or postgraduate students, it will also appeal to aficionados of creative writing and Undead enthusiasts..
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Introduction /
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The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire /
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Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited invasion /
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'He make in the mirror no reflect': undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction : Dorian Gray, Dracula and David Reed's 'vampire painting' /
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The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers's Vampir /
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The undead in the kingdom of the shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire /
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Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film /
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'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer /
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Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle /
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A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and The Twilight Saga /
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The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body /
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The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood /
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Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries /
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The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface /
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'Legally recognised undead': essence, difference and assimilation in Daniel Waters's Generation Dead /
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The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction: writing My Swordhand is Singing /
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: George, Sam. Open graves, open minds: representations of vampires and the undead from the Enlightenment to the present day, ISBN 9780719089411
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526102157
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