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

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

Title remainder

cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

Statement of responsibility

Erik Butler

Creator

• Butler, Erik, 1971-
• Butler, Erik, 1971-

Subject

• Social change in literature
• Vampire films -- History and criticism
• Vampires -- History
• Vampires in literature
• European fiction -- History and criticism
• Horror tales, European -- History and criticism
• Literature and society -- Europe -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms."--Jacket

Member of

• Online access with EBA: JSTOR
• Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• filmographies

Series statement

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture