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The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or, the Modern Oedipus
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The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or, the Modern Oedipus Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by John William Polidori; D. L. MacDonald (Editor); Kathleen Scherf (Editor)


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A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters-- the vampyre. This short story reveals the seductive figure of evil, who continues to exert a powerful influence over popular culture and who cemented Polidori's status within the Gothic tradition. This collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and hard-to-find works, including a medical thesis on nightmares, an essay on the source of pleasures, poetry and personal diaries, and the novel "Modern Oedipus," These works combine to help illuminate and deepen the reader's understanding of Romanticism and the Gothic.

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In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Lord Byron's personal physician. There they met Mary Godwin (later Shelley) and her lover Percy Shelley and decided to while away a wet summer by writing ghost stories. The only two to complete their stories were Mary Shelley, who published Frankenstein in 1818, and Polidori, whose The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold were both published in 1819.

The Vampyre, based on a discarded idea of Byron's, is the first portrayal of the alluring vampire figure familiar to readers of Bram Stoker and Anne Rice. Ernestus Berchtold scandalously draws on the rumours of Byron's affair with his half-sister for a Faustian updating of the myth of Oedipus, which it combines with an account of the struggle of Swiss patriots against the Napoleonic invasion.

Along with Polidori's work, this edition also includes stories read and written by the travellers in the Genevan summer of 1816 and contemporary responses to The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.

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  • Title The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or, the Modern Oedipus
  • Author John William Polidori; D. L. MacDonald (Editor); Kathleen Scherf (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Broadview Press Inc, Canada
  • Date 2007
  • ISBN 9781551117454 / 1551117452
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008270195
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

The late D.L. Macdonald was Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

Kathleen Scherf is Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary. They are the co-editors of the Broadview editions of Mary Wollstonecraft's The Vindications (1997), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1999), and Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance (2004).

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