Tag Archives: Eastern Europe
Roger Luckhurst, ‘The birth of the vampyre: Dracula and mythology in Early Modern Europe’
An extract here from Roger Luckhurst’s excellent introduction to the OUP World’s Classics edition of Dracula. The notion that the vampire is universal and archetypal is debunked, and its origins shown to lie in the Enlightenment response to folkloric panics … Continue reading
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Tagged Bram Stoker, Calmet, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Folklore, Marx, Vampires, Voltaire
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After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic
This is an early nineteenth-century vampire fiction that I’d not come across before: After 90 Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic (1860), by the Serbian Milosan Glivic, and newly translated into English by James Lyon. It appears unusual … Continue reading
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Tagged Eastern Europe, Folklore, Serbia, Vampires
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