Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements|xii
Foreword xiv
A Note on the Etymology of the Word Vampire xvii
Introduction Creating Thinking with Vampires 1
Part I Circulating: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 21
1 Unearthing the Dead: Medicine and Detection, Body and Mind 23
2 The Lands of Blood: Place and Race, Territory and Travel 41
3 Ghostly Theology: Rational Religion, Spiritual Reason 56
4 The Covenant of the Undead: Catholicism and Enlightenment, Sanctity and Danger 73
Part II Coagulating: The Nineteenth Century to the Present 95
5 The Cultures of Death: Gothic Romanticism, Deathly Words 97
6 Mortal Pathologies: Being Bestial, Living Lies 118
7 Bleeding Gold: Gothic Capitalism and Undead Consumerism 147
8 The Count, Dracula: Smoke and Mirrors - Pen, Paint, and Blood 169
Conclusion Crawling and Creeping Living with Vampires 193
Endnotes 207
Bibliography 248
Index 273