18. John William Polidori

(1795-1821)

Internet Resources:

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ADAMS, Donald K. “Introduction.” To The Vampyre. [GGI: 0967].

ASH, RUSSELL. “Introduction.” To The Vampyre. [GGI: 0968].

ASTLE, Richard S. “Ontological Ambiguity and His-torical Pessimism in Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre.’” [GGI: 0969].

BARBOUR, Judith. “Dr. John William Polidori, Author of the Vampyre” (pp. 85-110). In Imagining Ro-manticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms, eds. Deidre Coleman, Peter Otto. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1992.

BLEILER, E.F. “Introduction.” To The Vampyre. [GGI: 0970].

BOONE, Troy. “Mark of the Vampire: Arnod Paole, Sade, Polidori.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 18 (1995): 349-66.

BRUFFE, Kenneth A. “Elegiac Romance.” [GGII: 0605].

BUDGE, Gavin. "'The Vampyre': Romantic Metaphysics and the Aristocratic Other." (pp. 212-35) in The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.

CASS, Jeffrey. “The Contestatory Gothic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and J.W. Polidori’s Ernestus Berchtold: The Spectre of a Colonialist Paradigm.” JAISA: Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 1:2 (1996): 33-41.

CORDIE, Carlo. “Milano 1816: Byron, Hobhouse e Polidori.” Letterature Moderne 2 (1950): 5-11. 

FOUST, Ronald. “Rite of Passage: The Vampire Tale as Cosmogonic Myth.” In Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film. [GGII: 0607].

HARSON, Robert R. “A Profile of John Polidori with a New Edition of The Vampyre.” [GGII: 0608].

HENDRICKSON-HODOVANCE, Vicki Jean. “Blood Lust and Ennui: The Literary Superfluous Man and the Crisis of the Aristocracy in Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose Fiction (Nikolai Karamzin, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky).” Dissertation Abstracts International 59:3 (1998): 814A (University of Colorado).

MACDONALD, D.L. Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre. [GGII: 0609].

MACDONALD, D.L. and Kathleen SCHERF, eds.  The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchthold; or, The Modern Oedipus: Collected Fiction of John William Polidori. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

MC GUIRE, Karen. “Polidori, John” (pp. 462-63). In Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s, ed. Laura Dabundo. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. 

RIEGER, James. “Dr. Polidori and the Genesis of Frankenstein.” [GGI: 0971].

SENF, Carol. “Polidori’s The Vampyre: Combining the Gothic with Realism.” [GGII: 0610].

SKARDA, Patricia L. “Vampirism and Plagiarism: Byron’s Influence and Polidori’s Practice.” [GGII: 0611].

STABLEFORD, Brian. “POLIDORI, John (William)” (pp.455-56). In St. James Guide to Horror Ghost and Gothic Writers, ed. David Pringle. Detroit and New York: St. James Press, 1998.

SWITZER, Richard. “Lord Ruthven and the Vam-pires.” [GGII: 0612].

TELOTTE, J.P. “A Parasitic Perspective: Romantic Participation and Polidori’s The Vampyre” (pp. 9-18). In The Blood is the Life: Vampires in Literature, eds. Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Phaar. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1999.

THOMSON, Douglass H. “John Polidori (1795-1821)” (pp. 344-48). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bib-liographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

VIETS, Henry R. “The London Editions of Polidori’s The Vampyre.” [GGI: 0973].

VIETS, Henry R. “‘By the Visitation of God’: The Death of John William Polidori, M.D., in 1821.” [GGII: 0613].

VIETS, Henry R. “John William Polidori, M.D. and Lord Byron ––A Brief Interlude in 1816.” [GGII: 0614].