Symbolism of the Vampire in English Romanticism

• Název práce v češtině: Symbolismus upíra v anglickém romantismu
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Symbolism of the Vampire in English Romanticism
• Klíčová slova: Britská literatura|Romantismus|Upír|Sexualita|Gender|Celebrita|Dvojník
• Klíčová slova anglicky: British Literature|Romanticism|Vampire|Sexuality|Gender|Celebrity|Doppelganger
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2016/2017
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 12.09.2017
• Datum zadání: 12.09.2017
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 20.09.2017
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 04.09.2018 00:00
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 08.08.2018
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 04.09.2018
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

The character of the vampire was popularized especially by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. However, Dracula was not the first vampire in British literature and his origins can be traced back to Romanticism. This bachelor thesis will look into the complex issues of symbolism of vampires in selected works of English Romanticism from the end of the 18^th century to the first decades of the 19^th century. The main focus will be on the works of Samuel T. Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and John William Polidori and their approaches to the vampiric. The main aim of this thesis is to discuss the function of these characters in the selected literary works, define what exactly they symbolize and whether they represent something more profound than simply “the other”, “the abject” and “the damned”. The topical concepts of the doppelganger, literary celebrity, and sexuality and gender will also be explored in relation to the vampiric in the literary productions of an age of intense and swift social, political and economic change. The thesis will also look towards further development of the literary vampire in Victorian literature.

Seznam odborné literatury

Selected bibliography:

· Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire. London: Routledge, 1994.
· Ellis, Markman. The History of Gothic Fiction. Edinburgh: EUP, 2003.
· Hogle, Jerrold E. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.
· Botting, Fred. Gothic. London: Routledge, 1996.
· Brewer, Derek S. English Gothic Literature. London: Macmillan, 1983.
· Miles, Robert. Gothic Writing 1750-1820: a Genealogy. London: Routledge, 1993.
· Braccini, Tommaso. Před Draculou: Archeologie upíra. Praha: Argo, 2014.
· Ellis, Davis. Byron in Geneva. Liverpool: LUP, 2011.
· Twitchell, James, B. The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1981.

JSTOR
· Switzer, Richard. “Lord Ruthwen and the Vampires.” The French Review, vol. 29, no. 2, 1955, pp. 107–112. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/382161.
· Keyworth, G. David. “Was the Vampire of the Eighteenth Century a Unique Type of Undead-Corpse?” Folklore, vol. 117, no. 3, 2006, pp. 241–260. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/30035373.
· Du Boulay, Juliet. “The Greek Vampire: A Study of Cyclic Symbolism in Marriage and Death.” Man, vol. 17, no. 2, 1982, pp. 219–238. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/2801810.
· Twitchell, James B. “‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ as Vampire Poem.” College Literature, vol. 4, no. 1, 1977, pp. 21–39. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/25111149.
· Nethercot, Arthur H. “Coleridge's ‘Christabel’ and Lefanu's ‘Carmilla.’” Modern Philology, vol. 47, no. 1, 1949, pp. 32–38. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/435571.
· Sundell, Michael G. “The Development of The Giaour.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 9, no. 4, 1969, pp. 587–599. JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/450034.
· Liggins, Elizabeth M. “Folklore and the Supernatural in 'Christabel'.” Folklore, vol. 88, no. 1, 1977, pp. 91–104. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1259705.