Open graves, open minds: Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day

Half Title page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Introduction: Sam George and Bill Hughes

2. The deformed transformed; or, from bloodsucker to Byronic hero – Polidori and the literary vampire: Conrad Aquilina

3. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampires and Ireland’s invited invasion: Julieann Ulin

4. ‘He make in the mirror no reflect’: undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction – Dorian Gray, Dracula and David Reed’s ‘vampire painting’: Sam George

5. The vampire as dark and glorious necessity in George Sylvester Viereck’s House of the Vampire and Hanns Heinz Ewers’s Vampir: Lisa Lampert-Weissig

6. The Undead in the kingdom of shadows: the rise of the cinematic vampire: Stacey Abbott

7. Crossing oceans of time: Stoker, Coppola and the ‘new vampire’ film: Lindsey Scott

8. ‘I feel strong. I feel different’: transformations, vampires and language in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Malgorzata Drewniok

9. Gothic Charm School; or, how vampires learned to sparkle: Catherine Spooner: Catherine Spooner

10. A vampire heaven: the economics of salvation in Dracula and the Twilight Saga: Jennifer H. Williams

11. The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body¹: Sara Wasson and Sarah Artt

12. The postmodern vampire in ‘post-race’ America: HBO’s True Blood: Michelle J. Smith

13. Myriad mirrors: doppelgängers and doubling in The Vampire Diaries: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

14. The vampire in the machine: exploring the undead interface: Ivan Phillips

15. ‘Legally recognised undead’: essence, difference and assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead: Bill Hughes

16. The elusive vampire: folklore and fiction – writing My Swordhand Is Singing: Marcus Sedgwick

References

Index