Was the Vampire of the Eighteenth Century a Unique Type of Undead-corpse

Research article

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8930574
AutoresG David Keyworth
Ano2006
Volume117
Fascículo3
Páginas241-260
Data de publicação2006-10-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFolklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00155870600928872
OpenAlexW2169717570
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas13

In his Treatise on Vampires and Revenants (1746), Calmet argued that although Western Europe may have witnessed troublesome revenants in the past, the vampires of Eastern Europe were a unique type of undead-corpse. In this paper, I examine the characteristic features of the various types of undead-corpse that supposedly existed in Europe from the medieval period to the Enlightenment, so too the revenants of nineteenth-century New England. I argue that, unlike other types of undead-corpse, the distinguishing feature of eighteenth-century vampires was their apparent thirst for blood

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Enlightenment · Literature · Period (music · Vampire · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy