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IST 605: Vampire Literature

Resources related to the history and cultural impact of vampire literature from the 18th century to the present.

References

Screenshot from "Internet Archive" of the movie Dracula (1958), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Bohn, T. M. (2019). The vampire : origins of a European myth (F. Ipgrave, Trans.). Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202939 

Beresford, Matthew. (2008). From demons to Dracula : the creation of the modern vampire myth. Reaktion.

Melton, J. Gordon. (2011). The vampire book : the encyclopedia of the undead (3rd ed.). Visible Ink Press. 

Brodman, Barbara., & Doan, J. E. (2013). The universal vampire origins and evolution of a legend. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc. 

Wilson, Katharina M. “The History of the Word ‘Vampire.’” Journal of the History of Ideas 46, no. 4 (1985): 577–83. https://doi.org/10.2307/2709546. 

Senf, C. A. (1988). The vampire in nineteenth-century English literature (1st ed.). Bowling Green State University Popular Press.

Balinisteanu, Tudor. “Romanian Folklore and Literary Representations of Vampires.” Folklore 127, no. 2 (2016): 150–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24774382.

Carlson, M. M. (1993). What Stoker Saw: An Introduction to the History of the Literary Vampire. In L. Di Mauro (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 46). Gale. (Reprinted from Folklore Forum, 1977, Fall, 10[2], 26-32) https://link-gale-com.libproxy.albany.edu/apps/doc/APWJNC148176776/GLS?u=albanyu&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=b6a2fb31 

Foust, R. (1993). Rite of Passage: The Vampire Tale As Cosmogonic Myth. In L. Di Mauro (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 46). Gale. (Reprinted from Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, pp. 73-84, by W. Coyle, Ed., 1986, Greenwood Press) https://link-gale-com.libproxy.albany.edu/apps/doc/MLHOTE704552951/GLS?u=albanyu&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=d9b4875b 

Signorotti, Elizabeth. “Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in ‘Carmilla’ and ‘Dracula.’” Criticism 38, no. 4 (1996): 607–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23118160. 

Clements, S. (2012). The vampire defanged : how the embodiment of evil became a romantic hero. Brazos Press.

Boulay, Juliet du. “The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death.” Man 17, no. 2 (1982): 219–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/2801810.