Shadow and Voice: The Vampire's Debt to Secular Modernity

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dc.contributor.authorMaynard, Luke R. J.
dc.contributor.supervisorMiles, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-18T21:51:26Z
dc.date.available2013-12-18T21:51:26Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-12-18
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe past few years have seen a renewed critical interest in the vampires and vampirism of English literature, owing both to their growing influence in popular culture and a more inclusive reordering of the literary canon. Much of this recent work has typically approached vampirism through a psychoanalytic lens inherited from Gothic criticism, characterized by a dependence on Freud, Lacan, and Foucault, and often by a model of crisis in which these supernatural figures of terror are supposed to symbolize cultural anxieties with varying degrees of historicity. This dissertation builds upon the narrative of secularization set out in Charles Taylor’s recent work, A Secular Age, to answer the need for a new and alternative narrative of what function the vampire serves within English literature, and how it came to prominence there. The literary history of vampirism is reconsidered in light of the new sociological observations made by Taylor, hinging upon two key methodological principles: first, that Taylor’s new secularization narrative has the potential to reshape the way we think of literature in general and our literary relationship to the supernatural in particular; and second, that the fiction generated during this period of upheaval has much more to tell us about secularization, broadening our understanding of the ideological shifts and changing relationships to the supernatural that brought forth this uniquely modern monster in literature.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0593en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0318en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0358en_US
dc.description.proquestemailglukemaynard@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5096
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectSecularizationen_US
dc.subjectCharles Tayloren_US
dc.subjectVampireen_US
dc.subjectGothicen_US
dc.subjectsocial imaginaryen_US
dc.subjectGiaouren_US
dc.subjectChristabelen_US
dc.subjectVampyreen_US
dc.subjectDraculaen_US
dc.subjectModernityen_US
dc.titleShadow and Voice: The Vampire's Debt to Secular Modernityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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