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The blood is the life : vampires in literature

Author: Leonard G Heldreth; Mary Pharr
Publisher: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leonard G Heldreth; Mary Pharr
ISBN: 0879728035 9780879728038 0879728043 9780879728045
OCLC Number: 41932575
Description: ix, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Leonard G. Heldreth, Mary Pharr --
The Vampire and the Literary Tradition --
A Parasitic Perspective: Romantic Participation and Polidori's The Vampyre / J. P. Telotte --
"Carmilla" and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural Horror / Robert F. Geary --
Dracula Meets the New Woman / Jean Lorrah --
The Indian Vampire: Nomen et Numen / Zacharias P. Thundy --
The Vampire and the Modern World --
New Life for an Old Tradition: Anne Rice and Vampire Literature / Martin J. Wood --
Anne Rice's Protestant Vampires / Lloyd Worley --
Vampiric Appetite in I Am Legend, 'Salem's Lot, and The Hunger / Mary Pharr --
The Pretense That the World Is Sane: Saberhagen's Dracula / Joe Sanders --
S. P. Somtow's Timmy Valentine: The Vampire as Archetype and Fragmented Reflection / Leonard G. Heldreth --
The Vampire and Alternate History --
Introducing Count Saint-Germain: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Heroic Vampire / Sharon A. Russell --
Toward the Vampire as Savior: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain Series Compared with Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni / Sondra Ford Swift --
Vampire-Human Symbiosis in Fevre Dream and The Empire of Fear / Margaret L. Carter --
"Ourselves Expanded": The Vampire's Evolution from Bram Stoker to Kim Newman / Elizabeth Hardaway --
Vampires in Space: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Colin Wilson's The Mind Parasites and The Space Vampires / Michael R. Collings --
The Vampire and Gender/Sexuality --
Daughters of Lilith: Women Vampires in Popular Literature / Carol A. Senf.
Responsibility: edited by Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr.
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