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The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature
Carol A. Senf
出版Popular Press, 1988
主題Fiction / ClassicsLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Horror & SupernaturalSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN08797242429780879724245
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DxxjYgjepRMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.