George / Unknown / Hughes Open graves, open minds

Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0215-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

George, Sam

Hughes, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction – Sam George and Bill Hughes
2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero: Polidori and the literary vampire – Conrad Aquilina,
3. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampires and Ireland’s invited invasion – Julieann Ulin
4. ‘He make in the mirror no reflect’: Undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction – Dorian Gray, Dracula, and David Reed’s ‘vampiric painting’ – Sam George
5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck’s House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Vampir – Lisa Lampert-Weissig
6. The Undead in the kingdom of shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire – Stacey Abbott
7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the ‘new vampire’ film – Lindsey Scott
8. ‘I feel strong. I feel different’: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Malgorzata Drewniok
9. ‘Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle’ – Catherine Spooner
10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and Twilight – Jennifer H. Williams
11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body – Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt
12. The postmodern vampire in ‘post-race’ America: HBO’s True Blood – Michelle Smith
13. ‘Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries’ – Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface – Ivan Phillips
15. ‘Legally recognised undead’: essence, difference, and assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead – Bill Hughes
16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction – writing My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

George Sam:
Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield

Dr Samantha George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of HertfordshireSam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire

Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield