The Living Dead - A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1987
First published:	September 1981
Authors:	James B Twitchell
Dimensions:	235 x 153 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	219
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-0789-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8223-0789-8
Barcode:	9780822307891

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