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Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Western Vampire: From Draugr to Dracula
Chapter 1: “Draugula”: The Draugr in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth
Chapter 2: Dracula Anticipated: The “Undead” in Anglo-Irish Literature
Chapter 3: Retracing the Shambling Steps of the Undead: The Blended Folkloric Elements of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Chapter 4: Dracula’s Kitchen: A Glossary of Transylvanian Cuisine, Language, and Ethnography
Part II: Medical Explanations for the Vampire
Chapter 5: Biomedical Origins of Vampirism
Chapter 6: Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th-Century Vampire Epidemic
Chapter 7: Undead Feedback: Adaptations and Echoes of Johann Flückinger’s Report, Visum et Repertum (1732), until the Millennium
Part III: The Female Vampire in World Myth and the Arts
Chapter 8: Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight
Chapter 9: Vampiresse: Embodiment of Sensuality and Erotic Horror in Carl Th. Dreyer’s Vampyr and Mario Bava’s The Mask of Satan
Chapter 10: The Vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican Lore
Chapter 11: Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005)
Chapter 12: “If I Wasn’t a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?” Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Alfredson’s Let the Right One In
Part IV: Old and New World Manifestations of the Vampire
Chapter 13: A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan’s Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires
Chapter 14: From Russia with Blood: Imagining the Vampire in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
Chapter 15: Dracula Comes to Mexico: Carlos Fuentes’s Vlad, Echoes of Origins, and the Return of Colonialism
Chapter 16: Sublime Horror: Transparency, Melodrama, and the Mise-en-Scène of Two Mexican Vampire Films
Selected Bibliography
About the Editors
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