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Carmilla (Vampira lesbiana) - Parte 2

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 80

El romance entre Carmilla y Laura continúa, mientras una misteriosa enfermedad está matando a las mujeres del pueblo. Carmilla confiesa su amor, pero llega a un punto donde no puede resistir más su naturaleza. Algo horroroso comienza a ocurrir en el castillo, y Laura, la protagonista, está siendo víctima de la extraña enfermedad. Descubre el gran misterio de la hermosa Carmilla y el desenlace de su desenfrenada pasión. Carmilla es una historia sobre vampiros basada en una Europa muy antigua. Traducida por Leen iO.

Carmilla

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 202

Following a near fatal carriage collision, the beautiful young Carmilla is taken in by the narrator Laura and her father. The two young women become strangely attracted to each other, but there seems to be more to Carmilla than meets the eye. After her arrival in the village, local peasants begin to die and Laura falls ill and languishes. What is Carmilla's true identity, and can she be to blame? A thrilling Victorian tale of horror and mystery and a major influence on Stoker's Dracula, Carmilla remains one of Sheridan Le Fanu's most enduring works. This Valancourt Books edition, the first-ever scholarly edition of Le Fanu's novella, follows the rare original text as it appeared serially in The Dark Blue in 1871-72 (including the original illustrations) and includes a new introduction and footnotes by Jamieson Ridenhour. Also featured in this edition is a wealth of contextual material, including texts by Yeats, Coleridge, Stoker, Padraig Pearse, and others, and the complete texts of Le Fanu's "The Child that Went with the Fairies" and F.G. Loring's "The Tomb of Sarah."

Carmilla | Ein Vampir-Roman

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 102

"Carmilla" gilt als einer der ersten und besten Vampir-Romane überhaupt. Bram Stoker – Autor des berühmten "Dracula"-Werks – fand in diesem Buch des irischen Schriftstellers Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu entscheidende Anregungen. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) zählt zu den bekanntesten Autoren klassischer Gruselgeschichten. Auch in seinem Werk "Carmilla" über die gleichnamige und lesbische Vampirin zeigt sich Le Fanu in Bestform: Der Roman von 1872 ist hochspannend, düster und erotisch – kurzum: "Carmilla" hat alles, was ein guter Vampir-Roman braucht. "Carmilla" wurde mehrfach verfilmt (unter anderem "Draculas Tochter" von 1936, "Gruft der Vampire" von 1970, "Lesbian Vampire Killers" von 2009), doch wie so oft ist das Original unübertroffen. Das vorliegende Buch wurde sorgfältig editiert und enthält Le Fanus Roman im Original-Wortlaut der Erstveröffentlichung.

Carmilla : la mujer vampiro

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 64

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu publicó Carmilla en 1872 un año antes de su muerte, como un cuento breveen una colección titulada In A Glass Darkly. Si bien no es la primera historia de vampiros qu se escribió, el personaje de la vampiresa Carmila influyó, sin duda, en la delineación del Drácla de Bram Stoker. La historia tiene lugar e Styria donde Laura, la joven narradora, vive enun vetusto castillo con su anciano padre y unos ocos sirvientes. Carmilla aparece por primera ve en escena cuando Laura cuenta con tan sólo seisaños. Tras dormirse en los brazos dearmilla, e despierta sobresaltada al sentir dos agujas clvándosele en el pecho. Su niñera y el ama de llaes, que entraron en la habitación al escuchar su gritos, no encontraron a nadie ni marca alguna n su pecho. Carmilla reaparecerá trece años despés, cuando el carruaje en el que viaja junto consu elegante madre tiene o simula tener un accidete cerca del castillo de Laura, y Carmilla debe uedarse para recuperarse. El resto de la hisoria se desarrolla con el suspense de una novelapolicíaca y la pasión y melancolía de un inusualrelato de amor entre la protagonista y la mujer ampiro, hasta culminar en un final que ha...

The room in the Dragon Volant (conclusion). Carmilla

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 282

Carmilla

Autor: Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 142

In "Carmilla," Sheridan Le Fanu presents a seminal work in the gothic horror genre, intricately exploring themes of sexuality, identity, and the supernatural. Set in the eerie landscape of 19th-century Europe, Le Fanu employs a rich, atmospheric prose that evokes the haunting specters of Victorian society. The novella tells the story of Laura, a young woman who encounters the enigmatic Carmilla, whose vampiric allure challenges societal norms and instills both dread and fascination. This narrative, steeped in the conventions of gothic literature, significantly predates and influences later works such as Bram Stoker's "Dracula," establishing Le Fanu as a pioneer in examining the interplay between desire and monstrosity. Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish author active during the Victorian era, navigated the literary landscape that blended realism with the supernatural and existential dilemmas. His deep interests in folklore and the occult, coupled with his firm grounding in the literary traditions of his time, allowed him to craft narratives that reveal the complexities of human nature. Le Fanu's unique perspective as an individual living in a rapidly changing society provided fertile...

Carmilla : una novela de vampiros

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 140

Una lección perversa

Autor: S.t. Gibson

Número de Páginas: 286

Una novela DARK ACADEMIA. La Escuela Universitaria para Señoritas Santa Perpetua se encuentra en las profundidades de las remotas colinas de Massachusetts. Aislada y antiquísima, no es precisamente un lugar para chicas tímidas: en esta institución, los secretos están a la orden del día, la ambición es su alma y las recién llegadas son recibidas con extrañas ceremonias. Desde el primer día de clase, Laura Sheridan se ve arrojada a una intensa rivalidad académica con la bella y enigmática Carmilla. Ambas gozan de la confianza de su exigente profesora de poesía, De Lafontaine, quien tiene su propia y oscura obsesión con Carmilla. Pero, a medida que su rivalidad se transforma en algo mucho más delicioso, Laura se ve obligada a enfrentarse a sus propios y extraños deseos. Enredadas en un siniestro juego de política, rodeadas de profesoras sedientas de sangre y de magia, Laura y Carmilla deben decidir cuánto están dispuestas a sacrificar en su implacable búsqueda del conocimiento.

The Moral Panics of Sexuality

Autor: B. Fahs , M. Dudy , S. Stage

Número de Páginas: 244

A provocative feminist analysis of the moral panics of sexuality, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress, including vagina dentata, vampires, cannibalism, age appropriateness, breast cancer, menstrual panics, and sex education.

Embodied Difference

Autor: Jamie A. Thomas , Christina Jackson

Número de Páginas: 269

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.

Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction

Autor: Amy Jeffrey

Número de Páginas: 140

Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction offers an original and much-needed study of Irish Lesbian fiction. Evaluating a wide body of Irish lesbian fiction ranging from the Victorian era to the contemporary age, this book advocates for women writers who have been largely ignored in Irish literary history and criticism. This volume examines the use and applications of space in Irish lesbian fiction. In recent years, it can be argued that Irish society has created a new ‘space’ for LGBT or queer people. The concept of space is, thus, important both symbolically and physically for lesbian literature. In asking, if Irish women writers have moved ‘out of the shadows’ so to speak, what space is open to the Irish lesbian author? How is spatiality reflected in lesbian representation throughout Irish literary history? Space and Irish Lesbian Fiction examines a diverse range of writers from the nineteenth century to the contemporary age, evaluating the contributions of largely unknown authors who have been overlooked alongside more established voices within Irish literature. The concept of liminality that this volume takes as its theme and focus engage with notions of intersectionality,...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire

Autor: Simon Bacon

Número de Páginas: 1746

Winner of the The Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Non-Fiction 2024 This Handbook MRW is a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the vampire. Not only covering the list of usual suspects, this volume provides coverage from the very first reports of vampire-like creatures in the 17th century to film and media representations in the 21st century. The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire shows that what you thought you knew about vampires is only a fraction of the real and fascinating story.

Jardines secretos. Estudios en torno al sueño erótico

Autor: Julián Acebrón

Número de Páginas: 341

Con el estudio del ensueño erótico se despliega ante nosotros un abanico tipológico que va del pudor al descaro, de lo alegórico y simbólico a lo explícito, de lo trascendente a lo vano, de la culpa a la liberación, del duelo al gozo, de la satisfacción a la frustración. Categorías que, en suma, esbozan el mapa de un universo generoso con quienes se aventuran a explorarlo, como confirman los trabajos reunidos en el presente volumen.

Vampiras

Autor: Juan Antonio Sanz López

Número de Páginas: 316

En sus orígenes, el mito del vampirismo era eminentemente femenino. Descubre en esta rigurosa y sugerente investigación qué hay, en realidad, tras el aire amenazante y seductor de estas enigmáticas criaturas que consumen la energía y la sangre de sus víctimas para perpetuar su malvada existencia. Adéntrate en los secretos de un mito que fusiona horror y erotismo a través de la historia, el arte, el folclore o el análisis de la magnífica obra de autores clásicos, góticos o románticos, como Poe, Gautier y Le Fanu. Una exhaustiva revisión de esas siniestras y cautivadoras figuras que encarnan un lado oscuro de la feminidad: desde la legendaria y antigua Lilith hebrea, madre de todos los vampiros, hasta la egipcia Sekhmet, las empusas griegas o las nügui chinas. ¿Y qué decir de las vampiras históricas? Esas féminas que, desde la magia negra y la invocación por la sangre, personificaron el mito del vampirismo, como la condesa sangrienta húngara Erzsébet Báthory, cuya macabra memoria rastreó personalmente el autor de estas páginas en su guarida de los Cárpatos. Con un estilo envolvente, este cautivador relato desvela las claves para comprender una de las...

Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996-2014

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 233

Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The third of five volumes on Internet TV series, this book covers 335 alphabetically arranged gay and lesbian programs, 1996-2014, giving casts, credits, story lines, episode descriptions, websites, dates and commentary. A complete index lists program titles and headings for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and drag queen shows.

Horror Literature through History

Autor: Matt Cardin

Número de Páginas: 1065

This two-volume set offers comprehensive coverage of horror literature that spans its deep history, dominant themes, significant works, and major authors, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Anne Rice, as well as lesser-known horror writers. Many of today's horror story fans—who appreciate horror through movies, television, video games, graphic novels, and other forms—probably don't realize that horror literature is not only one of the most popular types of literature but one of the oldest. People have always been mesmerized by stories that speak to their deepest fears. Horror Literature through History shows 21st-century horror fans the literary sources of their favorite entertainment and the rich intrinsic value of horror literature in its own right. Through profiles of major authors, critical analyses of important works, and overview essays focused on horror during particular periods as well as on related issues such as religion, apocalypticism, social criticism, and gender, readers will discover the fascinating early roots and evolution of horror writings as well as the reciprocal influence of horror literature and horror cinema. This unique two-volume reference set ...

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Autor: Brooke Cameron , Lara Karpenko

Número de Páginas: 217

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period’s fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social upheaval, gender and sexuality, new knowledge and technology. The figure increased in popularity throughout the century and reached its climax in Dracula (1897), the most famous story of bloodsuckers. This book includes chapters on Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, as well as touchstone texts like John William Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), but it also focuses on the many “Other” vampire stories of the period. Topics discussed include: the long-war veteran and aristocratic vampire in Varney; the vampire as addict in fiction by George MacDonald; time discipline in Eric Stenbock’s Studies of Death; fragile female vampires in works by Eliza Lynn Linton; the gender and sexual contract in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne;” cultural appropriation in Richard Burton’s Vikram and the Vampire; as well as Caribbean vampires and the...

The Universal Vampire

Autor: Barbara Brodman , James E. Doan

Número de Páginas: 265

Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an “undead” creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume...

The Irish Vampire

Autor: Sharon M. Gallagher

Número de Páginas: 226

The origins of the vampire can be traced through oral traditions, ancient texts and archaeological discoveries, its nature varying from one culture to the next up until the 20th century. Three 19th century Irish writers--Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker--used the obscure vampire of folklore in their fiction and developed a universally recognizable figure, culminating in Stoker's Dracula and the vampire of today's popular culture. Maturin, Le Fanu and Stoker did not set out to transform the vampire of regional folk tales into a global phenomenon. Their personal lives, national concerns and extensive reading were reflected in their writing, striking a chord with readers and recasting the vampire as distinctly Irish. This study traces the genealogy of the modern literary vampire from European mythology through the Irish literature of the 1800s.

Horror and Religion

Autor: Eleanor Beal , Jon Greenaway

Número de Páginas: 236

Horror and Religion provides new readings of contemporary horror fiction in conjuncture with debates in religious studies and theology. It gives a broad analysis of a wide range of contemporary and historical horror texts in a new interdisciplinary way. This study establishes the importance of discussing theology and contemporary horror fiction in present scholarship.

Dracula's Daughters

Autor: Douglas Brode , Leah Deyneka

Número de Páginas: 319

Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire—male or female—has represented the libido, a “repressed force” that consumed its victims. Early iconic representations of male vampires were seen in Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1931), but not until Dracula’s Daughter in 1936 did a female “sex vampire” assume the lead. Other female vampires followed, perhaps most provocatively in the Hammer films of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Later incarnations, in such films as Near Dark (1987) and From Dusk till Dawn (1996), offered modern takes on this now iconic figure. In Dracula’s Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled a varied collection of essays that explore this cinematic type that simultaneously frightens and seduces viewers. These essays address a number of issues raised by the female vampire film, such as violence perpetrated on and by women; reactions to the genre from feminists, antifeminists, and postfeminists; the implications of female vampire films for audiences both gay and straight; and how films reflected the period during...

The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

Autor: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Número de Páginas: 640

From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market. Over 200 entries written by experts in the field are accompanied by an overview introduction by the editor. Generic entries such as 'ghost' and 'vampire' are cross-listed with important specific manifestations of that monster. In addition to monsters appearing in English-language literature and film, the Encyclopedia also includes significant monsters in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, African and Middle Eastern traditions. Alphabetically organized, the entries each feature suggestions for further reading. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters is an invaluable resource for all students and scholars and an essential addition to library reference shelves.

Carmilla

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 196

First serialized in the journal "The Dark Blue" and published shortly thereafter in the short story collection In a Glass Darkly, Le Fanu’s 1872 vampire tale is in many ways the overlooked older sister of Bram Stoker’s more acclaimed Dracula. A thrilling gothic tale, Carmilla tells the story of a young woman lured by the charms of a female vampire. This edition includes a student-oriented introduction, tracing the major critical responses to Carmilla, and four interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars who analyze the story from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Ranging from politics to gender, Gothicism to feminism, and nineteenth-century aestheticism to contemporary film studies, these critical yet accessible articles model the diverse ways that scholars can approach a single text. With a glossary, biography, bibliography, and explanatory notes on the text, this edition is ideal for students of Irish and British nineteenth-century literature.

Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them

Autor: Ron Backer

Número de Páginas: 373

Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known--even to avid horror fans--are the many other memorable films based on literary works. Beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present, numerous horror films found their inspiration in novels, novellas, short stories and poems, though many of these written works are long forgotten. This book examines 43 works of literature--from the famous to the obscure--that provided the basis for 62 horror films. Both the written works and the films are analyzed critically, with an emphasis on the symbiosis between the two. Background on the authors and their writings is provided.

The Mistletoe

Autor: Lizardo

Número de Páginas: 89

After the abandonment of his enigmatic mother when he was only a kid, Miguel finds himself struggling with new found abilities and the frustration of not knowing who or what he really is. After graduating, he and his father Clemente decide to take a retire journey on the woods in Styria, Austria, to take a break from the modern world. But as Miguel's abilities woke, so did new forces lurking for him, in the shadows.

The Global Vampire

Autor: Cait Coker , Donald E. Palumbo , C.w. Sullivan Iii

Número de Páginas: 252

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.

Gothic

Autor: Fred Botting

Número de Páginas: 136

Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide: * Explains the transformations of the genre through history * Outlines all the major figures which define the genre, such as ghosts, monsters and vampires * Charts key texts over two centuries * Traces origins of the form * Looks at the cultural and historical location of gothic images and texts * Provides a succinct introduction to the field which is a.

Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films

Autor: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns , Matthew Edwards

Número de Páginas: 246

This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed. Ranging from the studio’s first horror outing, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) to Hammer’s last contemporary film, Doctor Jekyll (2023), the collection celebrates cult-favourites such as The Quatermass Experiment, the films of Terence Fisher, to overlooked classics such as Captain Clegg or The Mummy franchise. This volume also delves into Hammer’s psychological thrillers, the studio’s venture into TV with Hammer’s House of Horrors, with theoretical frameworks varying from queer studies to postcolonial readings. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, international cinema, film history and horror studies.

Our Vampires, Ourselves

Autor: Nina Auerbach

Número de Páginas: 264

This "vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America" examines the many meanings of the vampire myth ( Kirkus Reviews). From Byron's Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice's Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate how every age embraces the vampire it needs—and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach follows the evolution of the vampire from 19th century England to 20th century America. Using the mercurial figure as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history, "this seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time" (Wendy Doniger, The Nation).

The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television

Número de Páginas: 389

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.

H.C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination

Autor: Marc-oliver Schuster

Número de Páginas: 587

Becoming Married

Autor: Herbert Anderson , Robert Cotton Fite

Número de Páginas: 184

This book examines the issues surrounding the process of forming the marriage bond, and is "a delightful mix of sophisticated theology, solid family systems theory, and clear practical guidelines for pastors, all illustrated by numerous wonderful stories" (Charles W. Taylor, professor, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California).

Horrifying Sex

Autor: Ruth Bienstock Anolik

Número de Páginas: 277

The Gothic moment in literary history arose in the age of the Enlightenment, and the Gothic fascination with the unknown reflects the Enlightenment's response to the limits of reason. Traditionally, the emblem of the unknown that lurks in the Gothic is the supernatural, the monstrous, and the inhuman. Often overlooked is the observation that Gothic texts are also haunted by figures that represent the mystery of sexuality. This collection of essays sharpens that observation and asserts that Gothic anxieties about sexuality are likewise rooted in fear of the unknown, represented by sexual practices and desires that either lie hidden or deviate from cultural norms. The first three sections refer to popular as well as marginalized Gothic texts to portray the three prototypes of sexual "deviance": the female sexual Other in "The Fatal Woman"; the male sexual Other in "The Satanic Male"; and the homosexual Other in "Homosexual Horror." The fourth section covers literary works that celebrate sexual difference and question the idea that the sexually "deviant" is socially Other.

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790–1910

Autor: Heather L. Braun

Número de Páginas: 177

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790–1910explores the femme fatale’s careerin nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution—and devolution—formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal correspondence. Considering well-known fatal women alongside more obscure ones, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale sheds new light on emerging notions of gender, sexuality, and power throughout the long nineteenth century. By placing the fatal woman in a still-developing literary and cultural narrative, this study examines how the femme fatale adapts over time, reflecting popular tastes and socio-economic landscapes.

Carmilla

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 95

Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whose departures from medical orthodoxy rank him as the first occult doctor in literature. The story is often anthologized and has been adapted many times in film and other media. It is a one of the earliest works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories".

The Gothic Family Romance

Autor: Margot Gayle Backus

Número de Páginas: 312

Uses 19th and 20th-century Irish Gothic literary texts to argue that capitalism, the nuclear patriarchal family and Protestantism coincided with and reinforced the conditions for the plantation of Ireland and the colonization which followed.

The Blaxploitation Horror Film

Autor: Jamil Mustafa

Número de Páginas: 258

Key Selling Points: · This book is the first to focus upon Blaxploitation horror films, and the first to link these films with both mainstream horror films and classic Gothic novels and stories. · This book provides readers with innovative and thought-provoking analyses of Blaxploitation horror films, conventional horror films, and major works of Gothic fiction. · It considers how Blaxploitation horror films of the 1970s addressed issues of deep concern to their contemporary audiences, including not only racism and the Black Power movement, but also women’s and gay rights, the status of the African American family, the role of religion, and relations between the community and the police.

Carmilla

Autor: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Número de Páginas: 93

Young and lonely, Laura lives with her widowed father in a castle in Austria. When a carriage breaks down on their estate the mysterious Carmilla is brought into Laura’s life, who welcomes a potential friend. The girls become fast friends, although Laura can’t help but notice Carmilla’s strange behaviour – sleeping most of the day, sleepwalking, and refusing to talk about her family or past. And then there are the dreams of a large beast entering her room. Carmilla stands as a pioneering work in the vampire genre, predating even Bram Stoker’s Dracula and influencing generations of Gothic literature. Le Fanu’s narrative, with its haunting beauty and sensuous dread, explores themes of love, identity, and the macabre, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of horror fiction. Prepare to be seduced and unnerved by this timeless tale of forbidden passion and the darkness that lurks within the shadows. JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU [1814-1873] was an Irish mystery and horror author. He had an enormous influence on the horror genre in the 19th and 20th century, especially through his championing of tone and effect rather than shock factor. Among his most noted work is the...

The Vampire Book

Autor: J Gordon Melton

Número de Páginas: 945

The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and...

Reviews in Social and Humanities Science Methodology, Research and Application

Autor: İbrahim Serbestoğlu

Número de Páginas: 245

Reviews in Social and Humanities Science Methodology, Research and Application