The Vampire:An Edinburgh Companion

Hughes, William and Groom, Nick, eds. (2025) The Vampire:An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic (1). Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474432474

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Abstract

The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, to those twentieth- and twenty-first century innovations that have disseminated the un-dead across global popular culture. Through a systematically commissioned range of original essays, this volume offers an unequalled overview of both the textual and critical fields, advancing a challenging reassessment of the canonical and uncanonical un-dead in fiction, poetry, reportage, cinema and comic art. Interdisciplinary and international in conception, it interrogates not merely the enduring literary presence of the vampire but also the physical and spiritual implications of vampirism, tracing its conventions beyond Europe and the United States into Asia. This volume is an essential summary of representations of the vampire and how they help us contemplate victimhood, morality, mortality and human identity.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	William Hughes was Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. He is a Past President of the International Gothic Association and the author or editor of more than 20 books including Key Concepts in Victorian Studies (2023), The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth Century Popular Imagination (2022) and Key Concepts in the Gothic (2018).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	vampire,gothic,medicine,british fiction,irish fiction,dracula
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	30 Jun 2026 14:46
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2026 14:46
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/103572
DOI:	isbn:9781474432474

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