Open graves, open minds : Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day /: Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sam George, William Hughes.
• Editors: George, Sam; Hughes, William
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526102164; 1526102161
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