The universal vampire : origins and evolution of a legend / edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brodman, Barbara.

Doan, James E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires.

Animals, Mythical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. THE WESTERN VAMPIRE:FROM DRAUGR TO DRACULA; Chapter 1. "Draugula": The Draugr in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth; Chapter 2. Dracula Anticipated: The "Undead" in Anglo-Irish Literature; Chapter 3. Retracing the Shambling Steps of the Undead: The Blended Folkloric Elements of Vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula; Chapter 4. Dracula's Kitchen: A Glossary of Transylvanian Cuisine, Language, and Ethnography; Part II. MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR THE VAMPIRE

Chapter 5. Biomedical Origins of VampirismChapter 6. Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th-Century Vampire Epidemic; Chapter 7. Undead Feedback: Adaptations and Echoes of Johann Flückinger's Report, Visum et Repertum (1732), until the Millennium; Part III. THE FEMALE VAMPIRE IN WORLD MYTH AND THE ARTS; Chapter 8. Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight; Chapter 9. Vampiresse: Embodiment of Sensuality and Erotic Horror in Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr and Mario Bava's The Mask of Satan

Chapter 10. The Vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican LoreChapter 11. Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005); Chapter 12. "If I Wasn't a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?" Le Fanu's Carmilla and Alfredson's Let the Right One In; Part IV. OLD AND NEW WORLD MANIFESTATIONS OF THE VAMPIRE; Chapter 13. A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires; Chapter 14. From Russia with Blood: Imagining the Vampire in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture

Chapter 15. Dracula Comes to Mexico: Carlos Fuentes's Vlad, Echoes of Origins, and the Return of ColonialismChapter 16. Sublime Horror: Transparency, Melodrama, and the Mise-en-Scène of Two Mexican Vampire Films; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-24337-1

1-61147-581-3

OCLC:

855502764