When John William Polidori, then twenty years old and fresh from medical school, accepted George Gordon, Lord Byron's invitation to accompany him as personal physician on a tour of the Continent early...
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Twitchell is an American educator and critic who has written extensively on supernatural and horror literature and film. In the following excerpt, Twitchell praises The Vampyre, exonerates Polidori fr...
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In the following essay, Skarda contends that the plot of The Vampyre and the personal histories of Byron and Polidori "demonstrate the essential vampirism inherent in the powerful influence of ...
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In the following essay, Barbour uses Polidori's The Vampyre to explore the figure of the vampire in the Romantic literary imagination.
I want to generalize an idea of the Romantic Imagination, ...
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In the following excerpt, Mishra discusses Polidori's The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold as exemplary of a particular type of Gothic fiction: a deliberately inconclusive work intended to arouse...
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The following excerpt is from an anonymous article mistakenly attributing the authorship of The Vampyre to Byron.
It appears that one evening Lord B., Mr. P. B. Shelly, the two ladies and the gentlema...
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In the following letter, Polidori acknowledges Byron's influence but asserts his own authorship of The Vampyre.
MR. EDITOR,
As the person referred to in the Letter from Geneva, prefixed to the...
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In the following excerpt from a review of Ernestus Berchtold, the critic blames Polidori for the attribution of The Vampyre to Byron, describing that novel as a "vile abortion. " The rev...
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Shelley's Frankenstein, one of the best-known horror novels of all time, was conceived and begun during the summer of 1816 , during the same sojourn during which Byron wrote the fragment from w...
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A leading authority on Restoration drama and the supernatural, Summers wrote numerous studies of witchcraft, lycanthropy, and vampirism, and the literature thereof. In the following excerpt, he outlin...
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In the following essay, Bleiler discusses the writing and publication of The Vampyre and assesses its influence.
By the beginning of 1816 it was inevitable that the great poet Lord George Gordon Byron...
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Frayling is an English educator and critic who has written extensively on modern popular culture. In the following excerpt, he discusses Polidori's Vampyre in relation to several types of liter...
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The Vampire tale As a Sub-Genre of The Gothic
Joyce Jenkins
Here I will expound upon how the vampire tale is undoubtedly a sub-genre
of the Gothic Genre. I will also attempt to tackle the tri...
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John William Polidori
