Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the Present Day

by Bill Hughes, Bill Hughes, Sam George

Book Overview

This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change.

A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in Byron and Polidori to Le Fanu's Carmilla. Further essays discuss the Undead in the context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178499362X
• ISBN13: 9781784993627
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"