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Gothic revival (Literature) --- English fiction --- American fiction --- Horror tales --- American fiction. --- English fiction. --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism

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London has taken a central role in urban Gothic, from key canonic texts like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula through modern Gothic texts to the 'tourist gothic' of rebranded gastropubs and ghost tours. As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This is the first book to focus on Gothic representations of London, offering a range of essays from established and new scholars reading London Gothic as it is ma

English literature --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- London (England) --- In literature. --- Intellectual life.

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Challenging the widely held assumption that gothic literature is mainly about fear, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment. Analyzing canonical works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James, Monnet persuasively argues that these authors' concerns about slavery, gender, and sexuality tacitly inform works that deal explicitly with less controversial subjects.

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For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its 'metamorphoses,' to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. 'Metamorphoses of the Vampire' explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler holds a PhD from Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College. His publications include 'The Bellum Gramaticale and the Rise of European Literature' (2010) and a translation with commentary of 'Regrowth' ('Vidervuks') by the Soviet Jewish author Der Nister (2011).

Vampires in literature. --- Vampires --- Horror tales, European --- European fiction --- Vampire films --- Social change in literature. --- Literature and society --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- European horror tales --- Lesbian vampires --- Dead --- Monsters --- Social aspects --- Films d'horreur --- Films de vampires --- Littérature et société --- Littérature d'épouvante --- Dans la littérature --- Au cinéma --- Vampires. --- Horror tales, European. --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Films d'horreur. --- Films de vampires. --- Littérature et société. --- History --- Dans la littérature. --- Au cinéma.