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1 online resource (xx, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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online resource cr |
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Foreword -- A note on the etymology of the word vampire -- Introduction: Creating : thinking with vampires -- Part I. Circulating : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unearthing the dead : medicine and detection, body and mind ; The lands of blood : place and race, territory and travel ; Ghostly theology : rational religion, spiritual reason ; The covenant of the undead : Catholicism and enlightenment, sanctity and danger -- Part II. Coagulating : the nineteenth century to the present. The cultures of death : Gothic romanticism, deathly words ; Mortal pathologies : being bestial, living lies ; Bleeding gold : Gothic capitalism and undead consumerism ; The Count, Dracula : smoke and mirrors -- pen, paint and blood -- Conclusion: Crawling and creeping : living with vampires. |
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9780300240818 (electronic bk.) |
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0300240813 (electronic bk.) |
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9780300232233 |
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0300232233 |
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10.12987/9780300240818 doi |
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