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035			_a(DE-B1597)9781487577476
035			_a(DE-B1597)549329
035			_a(OCoLC)1153541456
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aPR5187.P5A6 1993
072		7	_aLIT004120 _2bisacsh
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
245	0	4	_aThe Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or The Modern Oedipus / _ced. by Kathleen Scherf, D.L. Macdonald.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c[1994]
264		4	_c©1994
300			_a1 online resource (208 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aHeritage
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron's personal physician; there he met Mary and Percy Shelley and took part in the most famous house party in literary history. To pass the time in 'a wet, ungenial summer,' the travellers took to writing ghost stories. Byron wrote his Faustian drama Manfred (1817); Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818). Polidori appropriated an unfished story by Byron and turned it into the The Vampyre (1819). Polidori's tale, with its nightmarish atmosphere and seductive, aristocratic villain, was a scandalous success; the fact that it was originally published, without Polidori's knowledge, under Byron's name, didn't hurt. All the most famous vampires of popular culture, from Stoker's Dracular to Anne Rice's Lestat, descend from Polidori's Byronic prototype.Polidori also contributed an original novel to the ghost-story project: Ernestus Berchtold, or, The Modern Oedipus (1819). Polidori's novel explores the incest theme common to such Romantic works as Manfred, Percy Shelley's Alastor, and M.G. Lewis's The Monk, and combines this Gothic material with a historical account of Napoleon's 1798 invasion of Switzerland, one of the key moments in the political evolution of Romanticism. This edition includes the extensive revisions Polidori made for a projected second edition of The Vampyre, Ernestus Berchtold is reprinted for the first time in the 174 years since its initial publication. The critical introductions and explanatory annotations place the two works in their biographical, historical, and literary contexts. Appendices include a new edition of the fragment by Byron on which The Vampyre was based, and a fragmentary tale by Polidori, never before published, which shows him exploring new literary direction after being fired by Byron and returning to England in disgrace.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650		0	_aHorror tales, English.
650		0	_aIncest _vFiction.
650		0	_aVampires _vFiction.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aMacdonald, D.L. _ecuratore
700	1		_aScherf, Kathleen _ecuratore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487577476
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487577476/original
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