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Author:   Kevin Dodd ,  John Edgar Browning
Publisher:   Universitas Press
Imprint:   Universitas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.389kg
ISBN:  

9781988963327

ISBN 10:   198896332
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   08 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by John Edgar Browning; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Beginnings of the Nineteenth-Century Vampires; ""Long After His Body Had Been Buried, It Vexed Many:"" The European/English Revenant and the Beginnings of the Vampire; ""Materializing Shadows:"" The Norse ""Again-walker"" as a Remote Template for the Vampire; ""An Evil Kind of Animal:"" 300 Years of the Monstrous Vampire Bat up to the Nineteenth Century; The Vampire Bat and Monster; ""Blood Suckers Most Cruel:"" The Vampire and the Bat in and before Dracula; ""That Demonical Face with Staring Fixed Saucer Eyes:"" The Other Nineteenth Century ""Blood Sucking Vampire""; Gender and Sexuality; ""With Whom Do You Think You Have Been Dealing:"" Making Love to Evil: Woman, the Devil, and the Nineteenth-Century Vampire; ""A Person of My Sex:"" The Transgendered Vampire of the Nineteenth Century; ""A Yearning Drove Me Here to You:"" The Male Homosexual Vampire of the Nineteenth Century; ""Now I Know What Love Is!:"" The Lesbian Vampire of the Nineteenth Century; The Sympathetic and Merciful Vampire; ""My Greatest Torture Is Life Itself:"" The Tragic or Sympathetic Vampire in the Nineteenth Century; ""I Am Not as These: I Have Mercy:"" The Benign or Benevolent Vampire of the Nineteenth Century"

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"""The strength of the book all lies in the source material, particularly from the pre-modern world, that has been collected here. I will be snacking off bites of these sources for a long time to come."" -- Roger Luckhurst, FORTEAN TIMES"

The strength of the book all lies in the source material, particularly from the pre-modern world, that has been collected here. I will be snacking off bites of these sources for a long time to come. -- Roger Luckhurst, FORTEAN TIMES

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Kevin Dodd received his PhD in religion from Vanderbilt University. He has taught at a number of colleges, universities, and seminaries.

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