UID:
almafu_9959234746302883
Format:
1 online resource (336 pages) :
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illustrations (black & white); digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5261-0216-1
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1-5261-0215-3
Series Statement:
Manchester Gothic
Content:
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 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. 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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78499-362-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-8941-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.7765/9781526102157
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526102157
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526102157/9781526102157.xml
