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The decadent vampire
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The decadent vampire
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Spatola
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Justine J.
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1987-
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Justine Spatola
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author
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Ledoux
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Ellen Malenas
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Ellen Malenas Ledoux
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chair
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Martin
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Timothy
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Timothy Martin
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co-chair
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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theses
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2012
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2012-10
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eng
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John William Polidori published "The Vampyre" in 1819, and, as the first person to author a work of English vampire fiction, he ultimately established the modern image of the aristocratic vampire, which writers such as Bram Stoker later borrowed. The literary vampire, exemplified by Lord Ruthven, reveals the influence of Burkean aesthetics; however, the vampire's portrayal as a degenerate nobleman and his immense popularity with readers also ensured that he would have a tremendous impact on nineteenth century culture. "The Vampyre" foreshadows the more socially-aware Gothic literature of the Victorian period, but the story's glorification of the perverse vampire also presents a challenge to traditional morality. This essay explores the influence of the literary vampire not just on broader aspects of nineteenth century culture but also its influence on the Decadent Movement (focusing on the works of writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and Oscar Wilde) in order to show how it reflects the decadent abnormal. In doing so, however, this essay also questions whether decadence ought to be understood as a nineteenth century European phenomenon, as opposed to a movement that was confined to the late Victorian period; the beliefs shared by decadent writers often originated in Romanticism, and the Romantics' fascination with the supernatural suggests that they were perhaps as interested in perverse themes as the Decadents.
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English
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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electronic resource
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iv, 77 p.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Justine J. Spatola
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Vampires in literature
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Decadence (Literary movement)
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10005600001.ETD.000066530
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3WD3ZCZ
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Spatola
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Justine
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2012-05-05 16:23:41
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Justine Spatola
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Rutgers University. Camden Graduate School
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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