The origins of the literary vampire / Heide Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Heide, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires in literature.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Vampires--Europe, Central--History.

Vampires.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While there have been many illuminating studies of pre-literary vampires and vampires that have already been firmly established as literary figures, the story of the crucial moment of transition from folkloric figure to literary subject has not yet been told. The Origins of the Literary Vampire redirects scholarly attention to the body of German poetry and prose where vampire folklore becomes vampire literature. This book focuses on the adaptation of the vampire superstition from central European folklore by German poets in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for an audience that had

Contents:

Introduction: Germany's place in the history of the vampire in literature

The Habsburgs, vampires and scientific inquiry: the vampire's path to literature

The first vampire poems

The first German vampire stories

The development of a horror aesthetic by German poets.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4422-6675-9