The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion

The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion explores the vampire's history, literature, and cultural impact, offering a comprehensive overview of the canonical and uncanonical undead in fiction, poetry, reportage, cinema, and comic art. It interrogates the enduring literary presence of the vampire and its physical and spiritual implications, tracing its conventions beyond Europe and the United States into Asia.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion is a comprehensive exploration of the vampire figure, spanning its folkloric origins, Gothic literature, and modern innovations that have shaped global popular culture. Through a series of commissioned essays, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of the textual and critical fields, challenging canonical and uncanonical representations of the undead in fiction, poetry, reportage, cinema, and comic art. With an interdisciplinary and international approach, the book examines the physical and spiritual implications of vampirism, tracing its conventions beyond Europe and the United States into Asia. It serves as an essential summary of the vampire's representations and their impact on our understanding of victimhood, morality, mortality, and human identity.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474432474