The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or The Modern Oedipus /

The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or The Modern Oedipus / / ed. by D.L. Macdonald, Kathleen Scherf.

In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron’s personal physician; there he met Mary and Percy Shelley and took part in the most famous house party in literary history. To pass the time in ‘a wet, ungenial summer,’ the travellers took to writing ghost stories. Byron wrote his Faustian...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Macdonald, D.L.,
Scherf, Kathleen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©1994
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • POLIDORI AND HIS FICTION
  • A NOTE ON THE TEXT: THE VAMPYRE
  • A NOTE ON THE TEXT: ERNESTUS BERCHTOLD
  • TEXTS
  • The Vampyre: A Tale
  • Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus. A Tale.
  • Apparatus
  • THE VAMPYRE: PRE-COPY-TEXT VARIANTS
  • THE VAMPYRE: EXPLANATORY ANNOTATIONS
  • ERNESTUS BERCHTOLD: EXPLANATORY ANNOTATIONS
  • Appendix A: A Fragment of a Tale by Byron
  • Appendix B: Preliminaries for The Vampyre
  • Appendix C: ‘A Story of Miss Anne and Miss Emma with the Dog - Carlo.’
  • Works Cited

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