Description
Book SynopsisAgainst the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period's fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology. The figure increased in popularity throughout the century and reached its climax in Dracula (1897), the most famous story of bloodsuckers. This book includes chapters on Bram Stoker's iconic novel, as well as touchstone texts like John William Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) and Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), but it also focuses on the many Other vampire stories of the period. Topics discussed include: the long-war veteran and aristocratic vampire in Varney; the vampire as addict in fiction by George MacDonald; time discipline in Eric Stenbock's Studies of Death; fragile female vampires in
Table of Contents
Introduction
Brooke Cameron and Lara Karpenko
1. Black Female Vampires in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Folklore
Giselle Liza Anatol
2. Sicker Ever After: The Invalid as Vampire in Fiction by Arabella Kenealy and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Brenda Mann Hammack
3. "The Dropping of Blood from the Clouds": Imperial Vampirism in Richard Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry
Ardele Haefele-Thomas
4. Curating the Vampire: Queer (Un)Natural Histories in Carmilla
Lin Young
5. The Addict as Vampire
Rebecca McLean
6. "What a vampire!": Gender and the Modern Sexual Contract in Braddon’s "Good Lady Ducayne"
Brooke Cameron
7. The Vampire’s Touch in "Olalla" and The Blood of the Vampire
Kimberly Cox
8. "Keep[ing] Time at Arm’s-Length": Vampire and Veterans in Varney
Rebecca Nesvet
9. "A Financial Vampire": The Aesthetics of Repetition in Eric Stenbock’s Studies of Death
Lara Karpenko, Lauren Brandmeier, Alexa Larson, Lora Leach, Murphy McCoy, Gabriel Mundo, and Natasha Pellegrini
10. The Vampire as Byron: Polidori’s story adapted to the French and British Stage
Matthew Gibson
11. America’s First Vampire Novel and the Supernatural as Artifice
Gary D. Rhodes and John Edgar Browning
12. Queerly (Re)Vamped: Women, Men and Neo-Victorian Dracula(s)
Sarah E. Maier
