The Vampire by Nick Groom
The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, to those twentieth- and twenty-first century innovations that have disseminated the un-dead across global popular culture. Through a systematically commissioned range of original essays, this volume offers an unequalled overview of both the textual and critical fields, advancing a challenging reassessment of the canonical and uncanonical un-dead in fiction, poetry, reportage, cinema and comic art. Interdisciplinary and international in conception, it interrogates not merely the enduring literary presence of the vampire but also the physical and spiritual implications of vampirism, tracing its conventions beyond Europe and the United States into Asia. This volume is an essential summary of representations of the vampire and how they help us contemplate victimhood, morality, mortality and human identity.
This Companion gathers an impressive cabal of leading Gothic scholars to extend and enrich the project of embedding the enduring figure of the vampire into a range of contextsFrom medicine, folklore, anthropology, theology to the specific cultural histories of literature and film, Nick Groom and William Hughes have created a compelling snapshot of the current state of the field. Essential reading. -- Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London
Nick Groom is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. He is the author of 20 books, including Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today (2023), The Vampire: A New History (2020), as well as scholarly editions of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, Matthew G. Lewis’s The Monk, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, for the Oxford World’s Classics series. William Hughes was Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is a Past President of the International Gothic Association and the author or editor of more than 20 books including Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (2023), The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth Century Popular Imagination (2022) and Key Concepts in the Gothic (2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474432481 |
| Title | The Vampire |
| Author | Nick Groom |
| Series | Edinburgh Companions To The Gothic |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2026-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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