Open graves, open minds

Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day
Herausgeber: George, Sam; Hughes, William

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Produktbeschreibung

Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993627
• ISBN-10: 178499362X
• Artikelnr.: 45006793

Autorenporträt

Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Sam George and Bill Hughes 2. The deformed transformed;
or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire -
Conrad Aquilina, 3. Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires and Ireland's invited
invasion - Julieann Ulin 4. 'He make in the mirror no reflect': Undead
aesthetics and mechanical reproduction - Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David
Reed's 'vampiric painting' - Sam George 5. The vampire as dark and glorious
necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns
Heinz Ewers' Vampir - Lisa Lampert-Weissig 6. The Undead in the kingdom of
shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire - Stacey Abbott 7. Crossing
oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the 'new vampire' film - Lindsey Scott
8. 'I feel strong. I feel different': transformations, vampires and
language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Malgorzata Drewniok 9. 'Gothic Charm
School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle' - Catherine Spooner 10. A
vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and Twilight -
Jennifer H. Williams 11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of
spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body - Sara Wasson and Sarah
Artt 12. The postmodern vampire in 'post-race' America: HBO's True Blood -
Michelle Smith 13. 'Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The
Vampire Diaries' - Kimberley McMahon-Coleman 14. The vampire in the
machine: exploring the undead interface - Ivan Phillips 15. 'Legally
recognised undead': essence, difference, and assimilation in Daniel
Waters's Generation Dead - Bill Hughes 16. The elusive vampire: folklore
and fiction - writing My Swordhand is Singing - Marcus Sedgwick
Bibliography Index