Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 /
Butler, Erik,1971-
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Part I. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism -- Part II. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century -- Part III. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history -- Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond.
Vampires in literature.
Vampires
Horror tales, European
European fiction
Vampire films
Social change in literature.
Literature and society