ISBN:
9780300240818
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 288 Seiten)
DDC:
398.45
Keywords:
Vampires History
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Vampires in art
;
Vampires in literature
;
Absolute, The
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Philosophy, German 19th century
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Romantik
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Philosophie
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PHILOSOPHY / General
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Electronic books
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Vampir
;
Literatur
;
Vampir
;
Kunst
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Unearthing the dead: medicine and detection, body and mind
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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
,
The cultures of death: Gothic romanticism, deathly words
,
Mortal pathologies: being bestial, living lies
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Bleeding gold: Gothic capitalism and undead consumerism
,
The Count, Dracula: smoke and mirrors
,
pen, paint and blood
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Introduction. Creating: thinking with vampires
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Part I: Circulating: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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Part II: Coagulating: the nineteenth century to the present
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Conclusion. Crawling and creeping: living with vampires
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