Our Vampires, Ourselves

Name: Our Vampires, Ourselves
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ISBN: 9780226032023

ISBN-10: 0226032027

ISBN-13: 9780226032023

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Nina Auerbach

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Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history. "[Auerbach] has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters) have had steaming hot diners, encountered more bloodsuckers than you could shake a stick at, even a pair of crossed sticks, such as might deter a very sophisticated ogre, a hick from the Moldavian boonies....Auerbach has dissected and deconstructed them with the tender ruthlessness of a hungry…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Living with the Undead



Giving Up the Ghost: Nineteenth-Century Vampires



Dracula: A Vampire of Our Own



Our Vampire, Our Leader: Twentieth-Century Undeaths



Grave and Gay: Reagan's Years Notes


Index