Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 /

"For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Butler, Erik, 1971- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2010.
Collection:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Sujets:
Geschichte 1732-1933
Geschichte 1918-1933
Vampires in literature.
Vampires > History.
Horror tales, European > History and criticism.
European fiction > History and criticism.
Vampire films > History and criticism.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society > Europe > History.
Vampires dans la littérature.
Vampires > Histoire.
Roman européen > Histoire et critique.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Europe > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
European fiction.
Horror tales, European.
Literature and society.
Vampire films.
Vampires.
Literatur
Vampir
Weimarer Republik
Film.
Europe.
Europa
Deutschland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • pt. 1. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe ; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism
  • pt. 2. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft ; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century
  • pt. 3. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness ; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history
  • Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond.

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