The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature - Couverture souple

Twitchell, James B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822307898 ISBN 13 : 9780822307891

Editeur : Duke University Press, 1987

Synopsis

In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James B. Twitchell is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822307898
• ISBN 13: 9780822307891
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible