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Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day

Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day

George, Sam
Hughes, William

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 178499362X
ISBN13: 9781784993627
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 18 2016
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context of Dracula, fin-de-siècle decadence, Nazi Germany and early cinematic treatments. The rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from Coppola's film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. More recent manifestations in novels, TV, Goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and much more.

Featuring distinguished contributors, including a prominent novelist, and aimed at interdisciplinary scholars or postgraduate students, it will also appeal to aficionados of creative writing and Undead enthusiasts.

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