The Blood Is the Life
Subtitle: Vampires in Literature
Contributors: Leonard G. Heldreth (Editor); Mary Pharr (Editor)
Publisher: Bowling Green State Univ Popular Pr; Brand: Popular Press 3; Popular Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780879728045
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; British Isles; USA; Popular literature; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Horror tales, American; Horror tales, English; Vampires in literature
Description: "Present in breakfast foods, comics, television series, computer games, feature films, and books from academic studies to best-selling novels, the vampire hovers over society like Yeats's "rough beast, its hour come round at last." While many readers may be familiar with leading figures like Dracula and Lestat, few are aware of the range and variety of the vampire legacy that stretches from the early nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth - and beyond.

The essays in this volume use a humanistic viewpoint to explore the evolution and significance of the vampire in literature from the Romantic era to the millennium."--BOOK JACKET.