The vampire in nineteenth-century English literature.
This book traces the vampire's evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. The vampire appears in the folklore of almost every culture and became the property of serious writers in Victorian...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Bowling Green, Ohio] :
Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
©1988.
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| Summary: | This book traces the vampire's evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. The vampire appears in the folklore of almost every culture and became the property of serious writers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy [A1485353429B] was donated by Candice Benefiel. |
| Physical Description: | 204 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204). |
| ISBN: | 0879724242 9780879724245 0879724250 9780879724252 |