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The Irish Vampire - From Folklore to the Imaginations of Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker (Paperback)
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The Irish Vampire - From Folklore to the Imaginations of Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker (Paperback)
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The vampire has long held our fascination, and its presence may be
traced through archaeological discoveries, oral traditions, and
ancient texts. Its nature varied greatly from one culture to
another and one era to the next-until the twentieth century. What
happened? Three Irish writers-Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph
Sheridan Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker-each used this figure of folklore
in his fiction and over the course of the nineteenth century
created a universal mythological figure that culminated in Stoker's
Dracula, a character that would serve as the foundation from which
twentieth and twenty-first century writers would build the modern
vampire. Maturin, Le Fanu, and Stoker did not purposely set out to
transform the vampire of regional tales into a globally recognized
phenomenon, as their biographies show. Their personal lives,
national concerns, and extensive reading unconsciously seeped into
their writing which not only struck a chord with their readers but
made their vampires distinctly Irish, especially when compared to
existing vampire folklore and fiction. While their works have
separately been the subjects of many thorough critical studies and
Stoker and Le Fanu are often discussed together, this may be the
first time that a text groups all three together to trace the
progression of the nineteenth century literary vampire, includes
biographical and historical elements, and argues that the modern
vampire has its roots in Irish nineteenth century literature.
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