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9780415080125

Reading the Vampire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415080125

  • ISBN10:

    0415080126

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-12-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Transylvanian wildernesses and a morbid fascination with the "other:" the legend of the vampire continues to haunt the popular imagination. Reading the Vampireexamines the creature in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film--from early vampire stories such as Polidori'sThe Vampire, J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "lesbian vampire" taleCarmillaand Bram Stoker'sDracula, the most famous vampire narrative of all, to contemporary American vampire blockbusters by Stephen King, the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice, "post-Ceausescu" vampire narratives, and films such as F.W. Murnau'sNosferatuand Francis Ford Coppola'sBram Stoker's Dracula. Reading theVampireembeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing how vampire narratives reproducethe anxieties and fascinations of their times--from nineteenth century investmets in travel and tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity and obsessions with sex, to queer identity of the vampire, the association of the vampire with the "global exotic" and current concerns about wayward youth and the family.

Table of Contents

Preface
Ethnic Vampires: Transylvania and Beyondp. 1
Vampires in Greece: Byron and Polidorip. 24
Vampires and the Uncanny: Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'p. 42
Reading Draculap. 65
Vampires and Cinema: from Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'p. 86
Vampires in the (Old) New World: Anne Rice's Vampire Chroniclesp. 108
Vampire Blockbusters: Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Brian Aldiss and S.P. Somtowp. 124
Conclusionp. 141
Notesp. 145
Bibliographyp. 150
Indexp. 157
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