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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11549227.
- catalog contributor b11549228.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Leonard G. Heldreth, Mary Pharr -- The Vampire and the Literary Tradition -- A Parasitic Perspective: Romantic Participation and Polidori's The Vampyre / J.P. Telotte -- "Carmilla" and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural Horror / Robert F. Geary -- Dracula Meets the New Woman / Jean Lorrah -- The Indian Vampire: Nomen et Numen / Zacharias P. Thundy -- The Vampire and the Modern World -- New Life for an Old Tradition: Anne Rice and Vampire Literature / Martin J. Wood -- Anne Rice's Protestant Vampires / Lloyd Worley -- Vampiric Appetite in I Am Legend, 'Salem's Lot, and The Hunger / Mary Pharr -- The Pretense That the World Is Sane: Saberhagen's Dracula / Joe Sanders -- S.P. Somtow's Timmy Valentine: The Vampire as Archetype and Fragmented Reflection / Leonard G. Heldreth -- The Vampire and Alternate History -- Introducing Count Saint-Germain: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Heroic Vampire / Sharon A. Russell -- Toward the Vampire as Savior: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain Series Compared with Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni / Sondra Ford Swift -- Vampire-Human Symbiosis in Fevre Dream and The Empire of Fear / Margaret L. Carter -- "Ourselves Expanded": The Vampire's Evolution from Bram Stoker to Kim Newman / Elizabeth Hardaway -- Vampires in Space: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Colin Wilson's The Mind Parasites and The Space Vampires / Michael R. Collings -- The Vampire and Gender/Sexuality -- Daughters of Lilith: Women Vampires in Popular Literature / Carol A. Senf.".
- catalog extent "ix, 275 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0879728035".
- catalog identifier "0879728043 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries".
- catalog subject "813/.0873809375 21".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.V35 B55 1999".
- catalog subject "Popular literature English-speaking countries History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Vampires in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Leonard G. Heldreth, Mary Pharr -- The Vampire and the Literary Tradition -- A Parasitic Perspective: Romantic Participation and Polidori's The Vampyre / J.P. Telotte -- "Carmilla" and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural Horror / Robert F. Geary -- Dracula Meets the New Woman / Jean Lorrah -- The Indian Vampire: Nomen et Numen / Zacharias P. Thundy -- The Vampire and the Modern World -- New Life for an Old Tradition: Anne Rice and Vampire Literature / Martin J. Wood -- Anne Rice's Protestant Vampires / Lloyd Worley -- Vampiric Appetite in I Am Legend, 'Salem's Lot, and The Hunger / Mary Pharr -- The Pretense That the World Is Sane: Saberhagen's Dracula / Joe Sanders -- S.P. Somtow's Timmy Valentine: The Vampire as Archetype and Fragmented Reflection / Leonard G. Heldreth -- The Vampire and Alternate History -- Introducing Count Saint-Germain: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Heroic Vampire / Sharon A. Russell -- Toward the Vampire as Savior: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain Series Compared with Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni / Sondra Ford Swift -- Vampire-Human Symbiosis in Fevre Dream and The Empire of Fear / Margaret L. Carter -- "Ourselves Expanded": The Vampire's Evolution from Bram Stoker to Kim Newman / Elizabeth Hardaway -- Vampires in Space: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Colin Wilson's The Mind Parasites and The Space Vampires / Michael R. Collings -- The Vampire and Gender/Sexuality -- Daughters of Lilith: Women Vampires in Popular Literature / Carol A. Senf.".
- catalog title "The blood is the life : vampires in literature / edited by Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".