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[Brand: Creation Books] Ö Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature Peggy F. Finch said Enjoy them first, Analyze them later. As reviewer Geoffrey Brent stated, this book has some great stories once you get past the pretentious "Enjoy them first, Analyze them later" according to Peggy F. Finch. As reviewer Geoffrey Brent stated, this book has some great stories once you get past the pretentious 20+ page tunnel-visioned Freudian intro essay. Some of the stories you may have not seen before in other vampire literature collections, and Nansee555 was sweet enough to
| Title | : | Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1840680075 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror. Includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Le Comte de Lautramont, Count Stenbock, J-K Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Thophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Bronte, J.M.Ryder.
Peggy F. Finch said Enjoy them first, Analyze them later. As reviewer Geoffrey Brent stated, this book has some great stories once you get past the pretentious "Enjoy them first, Analyze them later" according to Peggy F. Finch. As reviewer Geoffrey Brent stated, this book has some great stories once you get past the pretentious 20+ page tunnel-visioned Freudian intro essay. Some of the stories you may have not seen before in other vampire literature collections, and Nansee555 was sweet enough to list them in her review. One thing to be aware of with this book is that a good number of the stories (6 of 16) are merely excerpts. In the case of the bit from "Varney the Vampire" you will be grateful for this brevity, but most of the other excerpts could have used a fleshier treatment. Still, it is enough to motivate the reader to se. 0+ page tunnel-visioned Freudian intro essay. Some of the stories you may have not seen before in other vampire literature collections, and Nansee555 was sweet enough to list them in her review. One thing to be aware of with this book is that a good number of the stories (6 of 16) are merely excerpts. In the case of the bit from "Varney the Vampire" you will be grateful for this brevity, but most of the other excerpts could have used a fleshier treatment. Still, it is enough to motivate the reader to se. A Great Compilation of Gothic Short Stories (Note: I have the 1992 edition.)I have to disagree with the other reviewer; I enjoyed the introductory critical essay, "The Erogenous Disease." Vampires and sex go together like blood and roses?I always want to know what stories are included in anthologies and its usually never listed, which drives me batty, so here they are: The Vampyre by John Polidori, Smarra (an excerpt) by Charles Nodier, The Beautiful Dead by Theophile Gautier, Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe, The Feast of Blood (an excerpt) by J.M. Rymer, Hane Eyre (excerpts) by Charlotte Bronte, The Vampire's Metamorphoses by Charles Baudelaire, The H. Geoffrey Brent said Good stories, bizarre introduction. Once you get past the introduction and into the actual stories, this is a reasonable enough compilation of vampire stories. Unfortunately, the 'introduction' fails to introduce the collection adequately; it looks more like an essay on the topic "Vampires in fiction as subversion of the Oppressive Male Patriarchy: discuss" The purpose of an introduction is to introduce the stories that follow it; the closest Ms. Gladwell's introduction comes is to occasionally draw on examples from the stories to support her own points.While sexuality is a major part of the mystique of the vampire, Ms. Gladwell does her r
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