Rivero (Marquette U., Milwaukee, WI) notes in his brief foreword that since 18th-century English language novels are a global concern, this volume containing 16 essays and six recent book reviews represents the work of scholars from Europe and Japan as well as the US and UK. The book commences with

Product Description: Before the Count offers a corrective to the history of the literary vampire presenting a collection of other vampire tales written before Dracula. Some of the poems, plays, and stories included here are indeed melodramatic and perhaps even histrionic, but they offer important insight into the development of the vampire mythos in England from its literary beginning until the publication of Bram Stoker's novel...read more

Product Description: Rivero (Marquette U., Milwaukee, WI) notes in his brief foreword that since 18th-century English language novels are a global concern, this volume containing 16 essays and six recent book reviews represents the work of scholars from Europe and Japan as well as the US and UK...read more