Blood And Roses [Old Edition]: The Vampire In 19th Century Literature (Creature Classics Ser.)) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror. Includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Le Comte de Lautramont, Count Stenbock, J-K Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Thophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Bronte, J.M.Ryder. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Series: Creature Classics Ser.)
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: The Tears Corporation/Creation (June 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1840680075
ISBN-13: 978-1871592146
ASIN: 1871592143
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #7,058,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #58 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Reference #77560 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods
(Note: I have the 1992 edition.)I have to disagree with the other reviewer; I enjoyed the introductory critical essay, "The Erogenous Disease." Vampires and sex go together like ... blood and roses?I always want to know what stories are included in anthologies and its usually never listed, which drives me batty, so here they are: The Vampyre by John Polidori, Smarra (an excerpt) by Charles Nodier, The Beautiful Dead by Theophile Gautier, Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe, The Feast of Blood (an excerpt) by J.M. Rymer, Hane Eyre (excerpts) by Charlotte Bronte, The Vampire's Metamorphoses by Charles Baudelaire, The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Phantoms by Ivan Turgenev, Madoror - The First Song by Isidore Ducasse, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, La-Bas (an excerpt) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, The Picture of Dorian Gray (an excerpt) by Oscar Wilde, The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, The True Story of A Vampire by Count Stenbock, and Dracula (yea!) (excerpts) by Bram Stoker.For the selections that are only excerpts, I recommend reading the whole thing if you haven't already. There are also a few nice (freakish) illustrations.
As reviewer Geoffrey Brent stated, this book has some great stories once you get past the pretentious 20+ page tunnel-visioned Freudian intro essay. Some of the stories you may have not seen before in other vampire literature collections, and Nansee555 was sweet enough to list them in her review. One thing to be aware of with this book is that a good number of the stories (6 of 16) are merely excerpts. In the case of the bit from "Varney the Vampire" you will be grateful for this brevity, but most of the other excerpts could have used a fleshier treatment. Still, it is enough to motivate the reader to search out the full works these came from, so no critical fault.Perhaps the strongest points of this collection is that while not at all exclusively female vampire stories it offers a great selection of them, including of course Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla", and to my great delight Lafcadio Hearn's matchless English translation of the wonderful French vampire tale "The Beautiful Dead" by Theophile Gautier. It even includes a rare, perhaps the only published 19th century vampire story of female authorship, "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.On the whole it is a very useful, carefully, & thoughtfully selected compilation of 19th century vampire tales. Just don't let the Freudian intro essay lure you into performing psychoanalyses on the stories & thier authors before you have had the chance to absorb them & enjoy them first.
Once you get past the introduction and into the actual stories, this is a reasonable enough compilation of vampire stories. Unfortunately, the 'introduction' fails to introduce the collection adequately; it looks more like an essay on the topic "Vampires in fiction as subversion of the Oppressive Male Patriarchy: discuss"... The purpose of an introduction is to introduce the stories that follow it; the closest Ms. Gladwell's introduction comes is to occasionally draw on examples from the stories to support her own points.While sexuality is a major part of the mystique of the vampire, Ms. Gladwell does her readers a disservice by concentrating on it to the exclusion of all other considerations; also, by treating the stories as supporting material for her essay rather than the other way around. In comparison, Christopher Frayling's anthology 'The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula' has a much more balanced and informative introduction.
I loved this book. It strikes the gothic romantic in all of us!!
Blood and Roses [Old Edition]: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature (Creature Classics Ser.)) The Little Books of Champagne, Chocolate, and Roses: The Little Book of Champagne/The Little Book of Chocolate/The Little Book of Roses Nineteenth-Century Music (California Studies in 19th-Century Music) Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World The Vampire Next Door: True Story of the Vampire Rapist and Serial Killer The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published A Shade Of Vampire (Shade of Vampire; Book One) The Vampire Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles, Book 2 The Vampire Armand (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles (New York, N.Y.) 19th Century Card Photos KwikGuide: A Step-by-Step Guide to Identifying and Dating Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Cards Architecture and Interior Design from the 19th Century, Volume II A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America AMERICAN COUNTRY BUILDING DESIGN: Rediscovered Plans For 19th-Century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece 2014 Calendar: Van Gogh: 12-Month Calendar Featuring Famous Fine-Art Paintings From One Of The Greatest 19Th-Century Artists Wool Appliqué Folk Art: Traditional Projects Inspired by 19th-Century American Life 19th Century Plains Indian Dresses Shaping the West: American Sculptors of the 19th Century (Western Passages)
