The Resource Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933, Erik Butler
Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933, Erik Butler
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- Summary
- "For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler is assistant professor of German Studies at Emory University, where he also teaches comparative literature and film."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)
- Contents
-
- pt. 1. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe ; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism
- pt. 2. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft ; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century
- pt. 3. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness ; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history
- Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond
- Isbn
- 9786613116338
- Label
- Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
- Title
- Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film
- Title remainder
- cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
- Statement of responsibility
- Erik Butler
- Subject
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- Deutschland
- Electronic books
- Europa
- Europe
- European fiction
- European fiction -- History and criticism
- Film
- Geschichte 1732-1933
- Geschichte 1918-1933
- History
- Horror tales, European
- Horror tales, European -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | German
- Literatur
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Europe -- History
- Social change in literature
- Social change in literature
- Vampir
- Vampire films
- Vampire films -- History and criticism
- Vampires
- Vampires -- History
- Vampires in literature
- Vampires in literature
- Weimarer Republik
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler is assistant professor of German Studies at Emory University, where he also teaches comparative literature and film."
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Butler, Erik
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- filmographies
- Series statement
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vampires in literature
- Vampires
- Horror tales, European
- European fiction
- Vampire films
- Social change in literature
- Literature and society
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- European fiction
- Horror tales, European
- Literature and society
- Social change in literature
- Vampire films
- Vampires
- Vampires in literature
- Europe
- Literatur
- Vampir
- Weimarer Republik
- Film
- Europa
- Deutschland
- Label
- Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933, Erik Butler
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213), filmography (p. 215-216) , and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. 1. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe ; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism -- pt. 2. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft ; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century -- pt. 3. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness ; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history -- Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond
- Control code
- ocn731680342
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786613116338
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt22qtt
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)731680342
- Label
- Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933, Erik Butler
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213), filmography (p. 215-216) , and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. 1. The rise of the vampire: Vampire country: borders of culture and power in central Europe ; Vampires and satire in the Enlightenment and romanticism -- pt. 2. England and France: The bourgeois vampire and nineteenth-century identity theft ; Dracula: vampiric contagion in the late nineteenth century -- pt. 3. Germany: Vampirism, the writing cure, and realpolitik: Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of my nervous illness ; Vampires in Weimar: shades of history -- Conclusion: the vampire in the Americas and beyond
- Control code
- ocn731680342
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786613116338
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt22qtt
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)731680342
Subject
- Deutschland
- Electronic books
- Europa
- Europe
- European fiction
- European fiction -- History and criticism
- Film
- Geschichte 1732-1933
- Geschichte 1918-1933
- History
- Horror tales, European
- Horror tales, European -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | German
- Literatur
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Europe -- History
- Social change in literature
- Social change in literature
- Vampir
- Vampire films
- Vampire films -- History and criticism
- Vampires
- Vampires -- History
- Vampires in literature
- Vampires in literature
- Weimarer Republik
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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