Vampire Grooms and Spectre Brides
Author: Tyler Tichelaar
Culture can be seen through many outputs within a society. And while many once believed that culture stopped at a country’s barriers, this excellent analysis shows otherwise.
In the nineteenth century, the French and the British shared their culture through their tellings, retellings, and translations of their gothic literature. While the Gothic Golden Age began in France with three prominent authors, it led to a second Gothic Golden Age in Great Britain, and then bounced back to France, lending to an even richer time in gothic literature.
Vampire Grooms and Spectre Brides offers the context needed to better understand how some gothic literature of that time gained in notoriety, while others were lost in the shuffle and translations of the time.
Tyler Tichelaar focuses his analysis on some widely known novels and essays, but also on some stories that may only be known by a gothic-reader enthusiast. Tichelaar analyzes the popular authors and tracks how their works became famous, whether it be through an aspect of their writing or the usage of a particular gothic element. He also mentions other writers who were influenced by the authors and others who penned works using the influencer’s name or the title of the original work.
Vampire Grooms and Spectre Brides is a great analysis on the works that were written during the nineteenth century and how they affected the culture of their own, but also other, countries.
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