| Description |
vii, 231 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and index. |
| Contents |
ntroduction: Living with the undead -- 1. Giving up the ghost: nineteenth-century vampires. Byron's ghost ; Polidori and the phantoms ; Varney's moon ; From Christabel to Carmilla: friends and lovers ; Carmilla's progress -- 2. Dracula: a vampire of our own. Dracula's new order ; Jonathan's master ; Jonathan's progress ; Vampire propriety ; Transformations ; The blood is the life -- 3. Our vampire, our leader: twentieth-century undeaths. Vampires and vampires ; Draculas and Draculas ; The 1970s: feminist oligarchies and kingly democracy -- 4. Grave and gay: Reagan's years. Turning back ; Getting sick ; Queer shadows ; New dark: vampires die. |
| Subject |
Vampires.
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Vampires -- Psychology.
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Gay people in popular culture.
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| ISBN |
0226032019 alkaline paper |
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9780226032016 alkaline paper |
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0226032027 paperback |
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9780226032023 paperback |
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