Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film
Subtitle: cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
By: Erik Butler.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781571134325
Subjects: Vampires in literature; Vampires -- History; Horror tales, European -- History and criticism; European fiction -- History and criticism; Vampire films -- History and criticism; Social change in literature; Literature and society -- Europe -- History
Description: "Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Part II. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century; title: Part III. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history; title: Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond.