Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and index
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Introduction: Living with the undead -- 1. Giving up the ghost: nineteenth-century vampires. Byron's ghost ; Polidori and the phantoms ; Varney's moon ; From Christabel to Carmilla: friends and lovers ; Carmilla's progress -- 2. Dracula: a vampire of our own. Dracula's new order ; Jonathan's master ; Jonathan's progress ; Vampire propriety ; Transformations ; The blood is the life -- 3. Our vampire, our leader: twentieth-century undeaths. Vampires and vampires ; Draculas and Draculas ; The 1970s: feminist oligarchies and kingly democracy -- 4. Grave and gay: Reagan's years. Turning back ; Getting sick ; Queer shadows ; New dark: vampires die
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"Sometimes bewitchingly erotic, sometimes repellent, sometimes ravenous, vampires embody their societies' fears and forbidden dreams. In this wry, original book, literary critic and vampire enthusiast Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs and, at the same time, gets the vampire it deserves."--Jacket