Open graves, open minds (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102164
• Artikelnr.: 48796179

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