Polidori, “The Vampyre” James Malcom Rymer, “Varney, the Vampyre”. Stoker defined the image of the mesmerising aristocratic vampire his corrupt and eroticised women are particularly interesting. Absolutely the novel of Victorian sexual repression, seduction and corruption. This is a fairly random selection of classic and recent vampire texts in literature and film, with particular reference to their use of the vampire symbol for erotic expression of one sort or another.īram Stoker, Dracula. You may well find other interesting Buffy and Angel articles on Slayage, see here for the archive. Wilcox (2002) “‘Every Night I Save You’: Buffy, Spike, Sex and Redemption.” Slayage 5 (2.1), May 2002. Talia Schaffer (1994) “A Wilde Desire Took Me: the homoerotic history of Dracula”, ELH 61(2), 381-425.
Rosemary Jackson (1981) Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. Various articles on different vampire texts, many of them film/contemporary. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press. Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger (1997) Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. London: Secker and Warburg.Īngela Carter (1979) “Polemical Preface” to The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. Italo Calvino (1982) “Definitions of Territories: Eroticism” in The Literature Machine. “Gothic Returns in the 1890s”, the section on vampires. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.įred Botting (1996). Nina Auerbach (1995) Our Vampires, Ourselves. Primary texts outlined below offer a guide to students who were approaching essays on this topic. This page reflects a discontinued section from my lectures in the history of eroticism, and is thus an approach to vampires slanted particularly towards their function as an erotic symbol.
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