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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House
2010.
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| Loạt: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81zrh |
Mục lục:
- 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.