| Description |
464 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part One. A Literary History. Lord Byron To Count Dracula -- Part Two. An Anthology. 1. Lighten Our Darkness. A Voyage to the Levant / Joseph Pitton de Tournefort -- Treatise on the... Vampires of Hungary [and Surrounding Regions] / Dom Augustin Calmet -- 2. Lord Ruthven And His Clan. The Vampyre / John Polidori -- Fragment of a Story / Lord Byron -- A Visit to the Theatre / Alexandre Dumas -- Varney the Vampyre / James Malcolm Rymer -- 3. The Tempestuous Loveliness Of Terror. Wake Not the Dead / Ernst Raupach -- Aurelia / E. T. A. Hoffmann -- What Was It? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- 4. A Creature Of Folklore. The Family of the Vourdalak / Alexis Tolstoy -- The Fate of Madame Cabanel / Eliza Lynn Linton -- 5. The Genesis Of Dracula. 'This man belongs to me' -- Bram Stoker's Working Papers for Dracula -- Bram Stoker's Research. Papers for Dracula -- 6. Count Dracula. Dracula's Guest / Bram Stoker -- Dracula / Bram Stoker -- The Modernist Vampire: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot -- Postscript. The Lady of the House of Love / Angela Carter |
| Summary |
Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. This book is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. Frayling recounts the most significant moments in gothic history, while extracts from a huge range of sources are contextualized and analysed. This revised and expanded edition brings Vampyres up to date with 21st-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four colour-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from 18th-century prints to 21st-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film |
| Notes |
"This book is a revised and expanded edition of Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula, published in 1991 by Faber & Faber."--Title-page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-463) |
| Subject |
Vampirella (Fictitious character)
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Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
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Vampires in literature.
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Vampires -- Fiction.
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Vampires -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2016931243 |
| ISBN |
0500252211 |
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9780500252215 |
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