Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature

Adele Olivia Gladwell (editor)

ISBN 10: 1840680075 / ISBN 13: 9781840680072

Published by Creation Books, 1999

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This book is in very good condition; Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature
• Publisher: Creation Books
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840680075
• ISBN 13: 9781840680072
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.41 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror

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Synopsis

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.