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Poor Polidori : a critical biography of the author of The vampire /
In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron's doctor. There he took part in the famous ghost-story project that inspired Frankenstein. As the medical member of the party, he contributed some scientific information to Mary shelley's novel. As a writer, he was the most indust...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- I: BEFORE BYRON: 1795�1816
- 1 Beginnings
- 2 The University of Edinburgh
- 3 Ximenes: The Modern Abraham
- 4 Oneirodynia
- 5 'On the Punishment of Death'
- II: BYRON: 1816
- 6 Negotiations
- 7 Travels with Byron
- 8 A Star in the Halo of the Moon
- 9 Ghost Stories
- 10 A Series of Slight Quarrels
- III: AFTER BYRON: 1816�1821
- 11 Crossing the Alps
- 12 Milan
- 13 Travels in Italy
- 14 Norwich
- 15 An Essay upon the Source of Positive Pleasure
- 16 London
- 17 The Scandal of The Vampyre
- 18 Ernestus Berchtold or, The Modern Oedipus
- 19 The Fall of the Angels
- 20 Death and Afterlife
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Acknowledgments