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Poor Polidori : A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre /
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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1991.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Macdonald, David Lorne, |d 1955-2010. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Poor Polidori : |b A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre / |c D.L. Macdonald. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Buffalo [N.Y.] : |b University of Toronto Press, |c 1991. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a 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 industrious of the party, producing both a novel of his own, Ernestus Berchtold, and The Vampyre, a tale based on an idea of Byron's. An unscrupulous publisher issued Polidori's tale under Byron's name, thereby ensuring great success for the book, although not for its true author. (Byron fired Polidori as his doctor soon after.) History has not paid Polidori much attention. Although he has figured prominetly in a few novels and films, there has never been a full-length study of his life until now.D.L. Macdonald rectifies the situation with this biography. He explains how Polidori's vampire was created as a caricature of the doctor's employer - the aristocrat, the traveller, the seducer. This version differed entirely from the vampire of folklore. It became extraordinarily influential, and remains essentially the vampire of popular culture today.Polidori's life, through short and unsuccessful, provides an opportunity for a new look at the Romantic period. His very lack of success forced him to engage himself succesfully in medicine, literature, law, politics, philosophy, and religion. In following his course we encounter not only a fascinating character but also a wide cross-section of cultural history. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Polidori, John William, |d 1795-1821. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00006653 |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Byron, George Gordon Byron, |c Baron, |d 1788-1824. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00069259 |
| 600 | 1 | 6 | |a Polidori, John William, |d 1795-1821. |t Vampyre. |
| 600 | 1 | 6 | |a Byron, George Gordon Byron, |c Baron, |d 1788-1824 |x Amis et relations. |
| 600 | 1 | 6 | |a Polidori, John William, |d 1795-1821. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Polidori, John William, |d 1795-1821. |t Vampyre. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Polidori, John William, |d 1795-1821. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Byron, George Gordon Byron, |c Baron, |d 1788-1824 |x Friends and associates. |
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| 650 | 7 | |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |x Literary. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x Gothic & Romance. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Vampires dans la litterature. | |
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