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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Groom, Nick (1966-....)
Titre(s) : The vampire [Texte imprimé] : a new history / Nick Groom
Publication : New Haven : Yale university press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-287 p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-272) and index
Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick
Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature.
The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when
Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified
outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political
commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces
the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind's fears, to that of an
unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing
on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical,
and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire
as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions
of the human condition
Sujet(s) : Vampires -- Dans la littérature
Vampires -- Dans l'art
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300232233. - ISBN 0300232233 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45618548q
Notice n° :
FRBNF45618548
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword ; A note on the etymology of the word vampire ; Introduction: Creating
: thinking with vampires ; Part I. Circulating : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Unearthing the dead : medicine and detection, body and mind ; The lands of blood :
place and race, territory and travel ; Ghostly theology : rational religion, spiritual
reason ; The covenant of the undead : Catholicism and enlightenment, sanctity and
danger ; Part II. Coagulating : the nineteenth century to the present. The cultures
of death : Gothic romanticism, deathly words ; Mortal pathologies : being bestial,
living lies ; Bleeding gold : Gothic capitalism and undead consumerism ; The Count,
Dracula : smoke and mirrors - pen, paint and blood ; Conclusion: Crawling and creeping
: living with vampires.
Introduction. Creating: thinking with vampires ; Part I: Circulating: The seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries ; Part II: Coagulating: the nineteenth century to the present
; Conclusion. Crawling and creeping: living with vampires.
