Poor Polidori : : A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre / / D.L. Macdonald.
In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron's doctor. There he took part in the famous ghost-story project that inspired Frankenstein. As the medical member of the party, he contributed some scientific information to Mary shelley's novel. As a writer, he was the most indust...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One. Before Byron: 1795-1816
- 1. Beginnings
- 2. The University of Edinburgh
- 3. Ximenes: The Modern Abraham
- 4. Oneirodynia
- 5. 'On the Punishment of Death'
- Part Two. Byron: 1816
- 6. Negotiations
- 7. Travels with Byron
- 8. A Star in the Halo of the Moon
- 9. Ghost Stories
- 10. A Series of Slight Quarrels
- Part Three. After Byron: 1816-1821
- 11. Crossing the Alps
- 12. Milan
- 13. Travels in Italy
- 14. Norwich
- 15. An Essay upon the Source of Positive Pleasure
- 16. London
- 17. The Scandal of The Vampyre
- 18. Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus
- 19. The Fall of the Angels
- 20. Death and Afterlife
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments