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Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead
Author
Title
Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead / Bruce A. McClelland.
ISBN
047209923X (cloth : alk. paper)
0472069233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472099238
9780472069231
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Variant and related titles
UMPEBC backlist 2011-2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Back from the dead : monsters and violence
Conversion in the Balkans : a thousand years of the vampire
Scapegoats and demons : a thousand years of the vampire, continued
Into the West : from folklore to literature
Seers and slayers
Seeing the dead
The rational slayer
From Vienna to London
The slayer generation.
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Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) publisher.
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