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Open graves, open minds : Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hughes, Bill (Editor ), George, Sam, Dr (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.