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Blood, Enjoyment and Belonging in Selected Vampire Fiction
… argues that blood is the central object of the vampire genre. Since the entry of the word ‘vampire’ into English in the early eighteenth century, human understanding of blood changed drastically. Yet the vampire’s blood-drinking remained its definitive characteristic. Moreover, in vampire …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
The vampire story has been around for ages, and still remains as popular today as ever. As times change, so do the vampire stories. In this master thesis, the author gives a timeline of the vampire story and how it reflects the culture of the time it was written in, showing how the vampire moves in …
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Death Becomes Us: The Consumptive Body in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature
<p>This thesis examines the impacts of nineteenth-century tuberculosis epidemics on gothic literature published between 1842 and 1872. In this period of time, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States and in Europe, killing an estimated one in seven people. Using theoretical …