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The
Blood Is the Life
Vampires in Literature
Edited by Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr
Popular Press
Today the vampire is a major cultural icon and can be found in
breakfast foods, comics, television, computer games, films, and
books from academic studies to best-selling novels. While readers
may be familiar with such figures as Dracula and Lestat, few
are aware of the range of the vampire legacy that stretches from
the early nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth.
The essays in this volume use a humanistic viewpoint to explore
the evolution and significance of the vampire in literature.
Contributors examine–besides Dracula–characters such
as Lord Ruthven, Carmilla Karnstein, Stephen King's Kurt Barlow,
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain, and Anne Rice's recoded
vampires. Other authors investigated include George R. R. Martin,
Brian Stableford, Kim Newman, Colin Wilson, Poppy Z. Brite, and
Tanith Lee.
For more information regarding publicity
and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734,
email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
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LC: 99-039529 PS
286 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN-10: 0-87972-803-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-803-8
Cloth $51.95 t
ISBN-10: 0-87972-804-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-804-5
Paper $17.95 t
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