Open Graves, Open Minds
Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day
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 T…
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Weitere Autoren: Hughes, Bill (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0216-4
- EAN: 9781526102164
- Produktnummer: 27906573
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'818 KB
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, black & white
Über den Autor
Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of HertfordshireBill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield
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