Open graves, open minds : representations of vampires and the undead from the Enlightenment to the present day /
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 sou...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 'vampire painting' / Sam George
- 5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck's House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers's Vampir / Lisa Lampert-Weissig
- 6. The undead in the kingdom of the 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 The Twilight Saga / 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 J. 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.