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Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead / Bruce A. McClelland.

McClelland, Bruce.
2006
GR830.V3 M23 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead / Bruce A. McClelland.
Author
McClelland, Bruce.
ISBN
047209923X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472099238 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0472069233 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472069231 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472026234 ebook
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2006.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Item Number
9780472099238
9780472069231
99814725900
Call Number
GR830.V3 M23 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
398/.45
Summary
Exploring how the vampire slayer began, this book goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored. It is of interest to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, and to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, and Slavistics.
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Exploring how the vampire slayer began, this book goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored. It is of interest to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, and to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, and Slavistics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index.
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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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