Vampires over the ages
Subtitle: a cultural analysis of scientific, literary, and cinematic representations
By: edited by Tomislav Longinovic
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [San Diego, California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781621315384; 9781621318194
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Vampires; History; Social aspects; Vampires in literature; Vampire films; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The history of the word Vampire / Katharina M. Wilson; title: Forensic pathology and the European vampire / Paul Barber; title: East European vampires / Felix Oinas; title: In defense of vampires / John V.A. Fine, Jr; title: South Slavic contermeasures against vampires / Friedrich S. Krauss; title: Vampurella : Darwin and Count Dracula / Charles S. Blinderman; title: The taboo upon the dead / Sigmund Freud; title: Capital / Karl Marx; title: Introducing the Dracula of fiction, history, and folklore / Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu; title: The archbishop's vampires / Francesco Paolo de Ceglia; title: Absent presences in liminal places : Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula / Saviour Catania; title: Dracula horror stories of the fifteenth century / Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu; title: Dark shamans : Kanaima and teh poetics of violent death / Neil I. Whitehead; title: Giving up the ghost / Nina Auerbach; title: Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia / Mantague Summers; title: Bram Stoker and the search for Castle Dracula / Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu; title: The quick and the undead : visual and political dynamics in blood : the last vampire / Christopher Bolton; title: The mysterious stranger / Anonymous; title: Good Lady Ducayne (1896) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon; title: Clarimonde / Theophile Gautier; title: The family of a Bourdalak / Alexis Tolstoy; title: Dracula's guest / Bran Stoker; title: Varney the vampyre, or, the feast of blood / James Malcolm Rymer; title: Wake not the dead / Johann Ludwig Tieck; title: Murderer the women's hope / Oskar Kokoschka; title: The ghost sonata / August Strindberg; title: For the blood is the life / F. Marion Crawford; title: Revelations in black / Carl Jacobi; title: Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman; title: The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber; title: Love-starved / Charles L. Grant; title: Shambleau / C.L. Moore.