{"product_id":"the-vampire-a-new-history-9780300254839","title":"The Vampire: A New History","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Vampyre\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind's fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Groom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.8lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300254839","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46939940880521,"sku":"9780300254839","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8be88b3a-c8f0-40ad-85b5-198371bf6bbe.jpg?v=1781661393","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-vampire-a-new-history-9780300254839","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}