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Tag Archives: Marx
Vampires: Dracula, James Joyce, Jane Austen, bats, and Marx
Again, a bit too late for Hallowe’en, but a handful of essays on vampires here: 1. Recent research at the London Library on Bram Stoker’s annotations to source material for Dracula: ‘The Books That Made Dracula‘. 2. Austen Gilkeson, ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged bats, Bram Stoker, capitalism, Carmilla, cinema, Dracula, graveyards, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Marx, Père Lachaise, Valeska Suratt, Vampires
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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
Posted in Resources
Tagged Bram Stoker, Calmet, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Folklore, Marx, Vampires, Voltaire
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Alexandra Campbell, ‘Review: Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines’
Alexandra Campbell, PhD student at the University of Glasgow, succinctly reviews here what looks to be an essential contribution to the critical literature on the vampire in literature and other media: Aspasia Stephanou’s book, Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines, … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Reviews
Tagged Blade, blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Film, Gothic, John Polidori, Marx, race, science, sexuality, technology, True Blood, TV, Twilight, Ultraviolet, Underworld, Vampire Diaries, Vampires, Victorian Gothic
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David Castillo and William Egginton, ‘Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists’
In this essay, David Castillo and William Egginton give a very thoughtful politicised analysis of the meaning of vampires and zombies in contemporary society. A very useful adjunct to the themes discussed in the OGOM book.
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Tagged Anne Rice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, capitalism, consumerism, George Romero, Lacan, Marx, postcolonialism, The Strain, True Blood, Twilight, Vampires, Zizek, Zombies
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