2025
First Published
312
Number of Pages
- Comprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon Surveys the vampire from accounts of eighteenth-century folklore to its significance within present day culture
- Contemplates the vampire as a global and still-developing phenomenon through reportage, medicine, religion, poetry, literary and graphic fiction, and cinema
- Responds not merely to recent representations of the vampire in fiction and cinema but also to developments in theory from Queer studies to postcolonialism The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, to those twentieth- and twenty-first century innovations that have disseminated the un-dead across global popular culture. Through a systematically commissioned range of original essays, this volume offers an unequalled overview of both the textual and critical fields, advancing a challenging reassessment of the canonical and uncanonical un-dead in fiction, poetry, reportage, cinema and comic art. Interdisciplinary and international in conception, it interrogates not merely the enduring literary presence of the vampire but also the physical and spiritual implications of vampirism, tracing its conventions beyond Europe and the United States into Asia. This volume is an essential summary of representations of the vampire and how they help us contemplate victimhood, morality, mortality and human identity.
Author
Marie Niehoff
Author · 11 books
Marie Niehoff, geboren 1996, hegt schon seit ihrer Kindheit eine Faszination für fantastische Geschichten. Diesen darf vor allem eines nicht fehlen: Romantik. Wenn sie nicht gerade schreibt, malt sie, kreiert Moodboards, kümmert sich um ihre unzähligen Zimmerpflanzen oder legt Tarotkarten. Unter anderem Namen hat sie bereits Bücher im New-Adult-Genre veröffentlicht, dies ist ihr Fantasy-Debüt. Auf Instagram und TikTok ist sie unter @marienie.schreibt zu finden.
