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Slayers and their vampires a cultural history of killing the dead
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Title
Slayers and their vampires [electronic resource] : a cultural history of killing the dead / Bruce A. McClelland.
ISBN
047209923X (cloth : alk. paper)
0472069233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472099238
9780472069231
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xviii, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2011
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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