The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature (eBook, ePUB)

A Feast of Blood
Redaktion: Cameron, Brooke; Karpenko, Lara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume looks at both the range among, and legacy of, vampires in the nineteenth century including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000598452
• Artikelnr.: 64043992

Autorenporträt

Brooke Cameron, PhD in English, University of Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of English at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of Critical Alliances: Economics and Feminism in English Women's Writing, 1880-1914 (2020), as well as multiple peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on gender and economic themes in Victorian literature. She has published peer-reviewed articles on Dracula, and is currently coediting a special issue on "Vampires: Consuming Monsters and Monstrous Consumption" for Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Lara Karpenko, PhD in English, University of Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of English at Carroll University. She has published work in journals such as the Victorian Review and Nineteenth-Century Contexts and is the coeditor, along with Shalyn Claggett, of Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age (2017). Her current work explores Victorian posthumanism and feminist aesthetics, and she is editing a special issue of The Victorian Review on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Brooke Cameron and Lara Karpenko

1. Black Female Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Folklore

Giselle Liza Anatol

2. Sicker Ever After: The Invalid as Vampire in Fiction by Arabella Kenealy and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Brenda Mann Hammack

3. "The Dropping of Blood from the Clouds": Imperial Vampirism in Richard Burton's Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry

Ardele Haefele-Thomas

4. Curating the Vampire: Queer (Un)Natural Histories in Carmilla

Lin Young

5. The Addict as Vampire

Rebecca McLean

6. "What a vampire!": Gender and the Modern Sexual Contract in Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne"

Brooke Cameron

7. The Vampire's Touch in "Olalla" and The Blood of the Vampire

Kimberly Cox

8. "Keep[ing] Time at Arm's-Length": Vampire and Veterans in Varney

Rebecca Nesvet

9. "A Financial Vampire": The Aesthetics of Repetition in Eric Stenbock's Studies of Death

Lara Karpenko, Lauren Brandmeier, Alexa Larson, Lora Leach, Murphy McCoy, Gabriel Mundo, and Natasha Pellegrini

10. The Vampire as Byron: Polidori's story adapted to the French and British Stage

Matthew Gibson

11. America's First Vampire Novel and the Supernatural as Artifice

Gary D. Rhodes and John Edgar Browning

12. Queerly (Re)Vamped: Women, Men and Neo-Victorian Dracula(s)

Sarah E. Maier