The Vampire: A New History

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An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword A Note on the Etymology of the Word Vampire INTRODUCTION: CREATING THINKING WITH VAMPIRES PART I. CIRCULATING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES 1. Unearthing the Dead: Medicine and Detection, Body and Mind 2. The Lands of Blood: Place and Race, Territory and Travel 3. Ghostly Theology: Rational Religion, Spiritual Reason 4. The Covenant of the Undead: Catholicism and Enlightenment, Sanctity and Danger PART II. COAGULATING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT 5. The Cultures of Death: Gothic Romanticism, Deathly Words 6. Mortal Pathologies: Being Bestial, Living Lies 7. Bleeding Gold: Gothic Capitalism and Undead Consumerism 8. The Count, Dracula: Smoke and Mirrors – Pen, Paint and Blood CONCLUSION: CRAWLING AND CREEPING LIVING WITH VAMPIRES Endnotes Bibliography Index