The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature

by James B. Twitchell

Book Overview

In his Preface to T he Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature , James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822307898
• ISBN13: 9780822307891
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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