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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Page 49
... Keats's character does not seem all that evil . In fact , his lamia has been so defanged and is so polite and courteous that one may well wonder if Keats did not change his mind halfway through the poem . Keats may even be using the ...
... Keats's character does not seem all that evil . In fact , his lamia has been so defanged and is so polite and courteous that one may well wonder if Keats did not change his mind halfway through the poem . Keats may even be using the ...
Page 54
... Keats to explore a favorite theme , and it is curious that such an interpretation has not been proferred before . Vampirism is predictably a part of the Gothic strain in Keats's work , a strain that appears early and continues through ...
... Keats to explore a favorite theme , and it is curious that such an interpretation has not been proferred before . Vampirism is predictably a part of the Gothic strain in Keats's work , a strain that appears early and continues through ...
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... Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci , has raised a goodly number of answers , none of them entirely satisfactory and many of them contradictory . First to answer were those who said that La Belle Dame is none other than the playful ...
... Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci , has raised a goodly number of answers , none of them entirely satisfactory and many of them contradictory . First to answer were those who said that La Belle Dame is none other than the playful ...
Contents
The Female Vampire | 39 |
The Male Vampire in Poetry | 74 |
The Vampire in Prose | 103 |
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