Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 /

"For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of...

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मुख्य लेखक: Butler, Erik, 1971- (लेखक)
स्वरूप: Licensed eBooks
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Rochester, New York : Camden House 2010.
श्रृंखला:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81zrh
विषय - सूची:
  • pt. 1. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe ; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism
  • pt. 2. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft ; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century
  • pt. 3. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness ; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history
  • Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond.