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(More customer reviews)A fascinating read about representations of the vampire in 19th century literature, including an entire section on the remake of the image of the vampire from its initial Byronic male form to the femme fatale bloodsucker of the late nineteenth century. This is *not* just boring lit crit. Learn about Carmilla the lesbian vampire and Varny the vampire, two extremely popular bloodsuckers of the time.
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Carol A. Senf traces the vampire\'s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.
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