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Control # 1 2018951682
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20200616104003.0
Fixed Data 8 180713t20182018ctuaf e b 001 0 eng d
LC Card 10    $a 2018951682
ISBN 20    $a9780300232233$q(hardcover)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)on1054933661
Obsolete 39    $a321995$cTLC
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Authen. Ctr. 42    $alccopycat
Dewey Class 82 04 $a398/.45$223
LC Call 50 00 $aGR830.V3$bG755 2018
ME:Pers Name 100 $aGroom, Nick,$d1966-$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe vampire :$ba new history /$cNick Groom.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2018]
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2018
Phys Descrpt 300    $axix, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 248-272) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aForeword -- 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.
Abstract 520 $aPublished to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind's fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction. Creating: thinking with vampires -- Part I: Circulating: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Part II: Coagulating: the nineteenth century to the present -- Conclusion. Crawling and creeping: living with vampires.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aVampires$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aVampires.