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Author Auerbach, Nina, 1943-

Title Our vampires, ourselves / Nina Auerbach
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995

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Description vii, 231 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Giving Up the Ghost: Nineteenth-Century Vampires -- 2. Dracula: A Vampire of Our Own -- 3. Our Vampire, Our Leader: Twentieth-Century Undeaths -- 4. Grave and Gay: Reagan's Years
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Gays in popular culture.
Vampires -- History.
Vampires -- Psychological aspects.
Vampires -- Psychology.
Vampires.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Homosexuality.
Mythology.
Occultism.
LC no. 95001044
ISBN 0226032019 (alk. paper)
0226032027 (paperback)