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03462aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 5E3BA58072D911EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221203010154 008 200311t20202018ctuaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300254830 020 $a 9780300254839 035 $a (OCoLC)1143616933 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d HF9 $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ON8 $d SILO 050 4 $a GR830.V3 $b G70 2020 082 04 $a 398/.45 $2 23 100 1 $a Groom, Nick, $d 1966- $e author. 245 14 $a The vampire : $b a new history / $c Nick Groom. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xix, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 20 cm 500 $a First published in paperback in 2020 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-272) and index. 505 00 $t Conclusion: Crawling and creeping : living with vampires. $t A note on the etymology of the word vampire -- $t Introduction: Creating : thinking with vampires -- $g Part II. $t Circulating : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. $t Unearthing the dead : medicine and detection, body and mind ; $t The lands of blood : place and race, territory and travel ; $t Ghostly theology : rational religion, spiritual reason ; $t The covenant of the undead : Catholicism and enlightenment, sanctity and danger -- $g Part II. $t Coagulating : the nineteenth century to the present. $t The cultures of death : Gothic romanticism, deathly words ; $t Mortal pathologies : being bestial, living lies ; $t Bleeding gold : Gothic capitalism and undead consumerism ; $t The Count, Dracula : smoke and mirrors - pen, paint and blood -- $t Conclusion: Crawling and creeping : living with vampires. 520 $a "Nick Groom traces the true origins of the vampire: from the Enlightenment, when the creature embodied human fears about theology, philosophy, medicine, and science, to more recent times, when it emerged as an unlikely hero of the marginalized and excluded" -- Back cover. 520 8 $a Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind's fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition. 650 0 $a Vampires $x History. 650 0 $a Vampires in art. 650 0 $a Vampires in literature. 650 7 $a Vampires. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01163968 650 7 $a Vampires in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01163972 650 7 $a Vampires in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01163974 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014033.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5E3BA58072D911EDA0B05B7C49ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search