Open graves, open minds —— Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day

----- 打开坟墓，解放思想：从启蒙时代至今的吸血鬼和不死族代表

ISBN: 9780719089411 出版年：2015 页码：335 Manchester University Press

This collection of interconnected essays relates the undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. a coherent narrative follows enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through romantic incarnations in byron and polidori to le fanu's carmilla. further essays discuss the undead in the context of dracula, fin-de-siecle decadence, nazi germany and early cinematic treatments. the rise of the sympathetic vampire is charted from coppola's film, bram stoker's dracula, to buffy the vampire slayer and twilight. more recent manifestations in novels, tv, goth subculture, young adult fiction and cinema are dealt with in discussions of true blood, the vampire diaries and much more.