The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic LiteratureIn his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize. - Book Jacket. |
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I think a case can be made that Wordsworth intended to write a vampire poem , with the Leech Gatherer as the central character . Important here is the fact that Wordsworth originally entitled the poem The Leech Gatherer , but changed it ...
I think a case can be made that Wordsworth intended to write a vampire poem , with the Leech Gatherer as the central character . Important here is the fact that Wordsworth originally entitled the poem The Leech Gatherer , but changed it ...
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and again he is transported as the Leech Gatherer smiles and says simply that he gathers leeches . Abruptly the poet concludes : While he was talking thus , the lonely place , The old Man's shape , and speech - all troubled me : In my ...
and again he is transported as the Leech Gatherer smiles and says simply that he gathers leeches . Abruptly the poet concludes : While he was talking thus , the lonely place , The old Man's shape , and speech - all troubled me : In my ...
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The one thing that Wordsworth did not want was for us to assume that the Leech Gatherer was a demonic fiend , and so he also cut these lines that follow the poet's first question about occupation : “ He answer'd me with pleasure and ...
The one thing that Wordsworth did not want was for us to assume that the Leech Gatherer was a demonic fiend , and so he also cut these lines that follow the poet's first question about occupation : “ He answer'd me with pleasure and ...
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Contents
The Female Vampire | 39 |
The Male Vampire in Poetry | 74 |
The Vampire in Prose | 103 |
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| Title | The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature |
| Author | James B. Twitchell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Duke University Press, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0822304384, 9780822304388 |
| Length | 219 pages |
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