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The Fantastic Vampire Studies in the Children of the Night--Selected Essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
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James Craig Holte, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-30933-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30933-5
176 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2002
List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. As a result, vampire lore is extremely diverse. So too, representations of the vampire in creative works have been marked by much originality. In The Vampyre (1819), John Polidori introduced Lord Ruthven and established the vampire craze of the 19th century that resulted in a flood of German vampire poetry, French vampire drama, and British vampire fiction. This tradition culminated in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), which fixed the character of the Transylvanian nobleman as the archetypal vampire firmly in the public imagination. Numerous films drew from Stoker's novel to varying degrees, with each emphasizing different elements of his vampire character. And more recent writers have created works in which vampirism is used to explore contemporary social concerns.

The contributors to this volume discuss representations of the vampire in fiction, folklore, film, and popular culture. The first section includes chapters on Stoker and his works, with attention to such figures as Oscar Wilde and Edvard Munch. The second section explores the vampire in film and popular culture from Bela Lugosi to Blacula. The volume then looks at such modern writers as Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro who have adapted the vampire legend to meet their artistic needs. A final section studies contemporary issues, such as vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS in Killing Zoe.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Studies in Stoker
    Shapeshifting Dracula: The Abridged Edition of 1901 by Elizabeth Miller
    Bram Stroker and Irish Gothic by Raymond McNally
    Dracula's Reflection: The Jewel of Seven Stars by Katie Harse
    Appalling in Its Gloomy Fascination: Stoker's Dracula and Wilde's Salome by William Pencak
    Stoker's Dracula: A Neo Gothic Experiment by Scott Vander Ploeg
    Men in Love: The Fantasizing of Bram Stoker and Edvard Munch by Suzanna Nyberg
    The Vampire in Film and Popular Culture
    Bela Lugosi's Dead, But Vampire Music Stalks the Airwaves by Tony Fonseca
    Policing Eddie Murphy: The Unstable Black Body in Vampire in Brooklyn by Les Tannenbaum
    Resurrection in Britain: Christopher Lee and the Hammer Draculas by James Craig Holte
    I Strahd: Narrative Voice and Variation on a Non-Player Character in TSR's Ravenloft Universe by Margaret Carter
    Modern Vampire Fictions
    The Mother Goddess in H. Rider Haggard's She and Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned by Bette Roberts
    Blood Spirit/Blood Bodies: The Viral in the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro by Heidi L. Nordberg
    Kelene: The Face in the Mirror by Stephanie Moss
    Contemporary Issues in the World of the Undead
    Deadly Kisses: Vampirism, Colonialism, and the Gendering of Horror by Teri Ann Doerksen
    A Girl Like That Will Give You AIDS!: Vampirism as AIDS in Killing Zoe by Jeane Rose
About the Author: JAMES CRAIG HOLTE is Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University. His previous books include Dracula in the Dark (1997), The Conversion Experience in America (1992), and The Ethnic I (1988), all available from Greenwood Press.
LCC Class: 820
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