The vampire in nineteenth-century English literature / [Carol A. Senf].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Senf, Carol A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Horror tales, English--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English.

Vampires in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bowling Green, Ohio] : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Carol A. Senf traces the vampire's evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Chapter One: Blood, Eroticism, and the Twentieth-Century Vampire

Chapter Two: The Origins of Modern Myth

Chapter Three: The Vampire as Gothic Villain

Chapter Four: Suspicions Confirmed, Suspicions Denied

Chapter Five: Myth Becomes Metaphor in Realistic Fiction

Chapter Six: Making Sense of the Changes

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliography: p. 194-204.

ISBN:

9781299443426

1299443427

9780299263836

0299263835

OCLC:

572565646