Was the Vampire of the Eighteenth Century a Unique Type of Undead-corpse?
2006; Routledge; Volume: 117; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00155870600928872
ISSN1469-8315
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
ResumoIn his Treatise on Vampires and Revenants (1746), Calmet argued that although Western Europe may have witnessed troublesome revenants in the past, the vampires of Eastern Europe were a unique type of undead-corpse. In this paper, I examine the characteristic features of the various types of undead-corpse that supposedly existed in Europe from the medieval period to the Enlightenment, so too the revenants of nineteenth-century New England. I argue that, unlike other types of undead-corpse, the distinguishing feature of eighteenth-century vampires was their apparent thirst for blood.
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