02397nam 2200517 450 991081466780332120230808194753.01-4422-6675-9(CKB)3710000000830870(EBL)4648481(PQKBManifestationID)16482289(PQKBWorkID)15021335(PQKB)23740529(MiAaPQ)EBC4648481(DLC) 2016026582(EXLCZ)99371000000083087020160907h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origins of the literary vampire /Heide CrawfordLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2016.©20161 online resource (149 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-6674-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Germany's place in the history of the vampire in literature -- The Habsburgs, vampires and scientific inquiry: the vampire's path to literature -- The first vampire poems -- The first German vampire stories -- The development of a horror aesthetic by German poets.While there have been many illuminating studies of pre-literary vampires and vampires that have already been firmly established as literary figures, the story of the crucial moment of transition from folkloric figure to literary subject has not yet been told. The Origins of the Literary Vampire redirects scholarly attention to the body of German poetry and prose where vampire folklore becomes vampire literature. This book focuses on the adaptation of the vampire superstition from central European folklore by German poets in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for an audience that hadVampires in literatureGerman literatureHistory and criticismVampiresEurope, CentralHistoryVampires in literature.German literatureHistory and criticism.VampiresHistory.830.9/375Crawford Heide1966-1693841MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814667803321The origins of the literary vampire4071947UNINA