@article{ref1,
title="Vampires and resurrection men: the perils and pleasures of the embodied past in 1840s sensational fiction",
journal="Victorian studies",
year="2009",
author="Hackenberg, Sara",
volume="52",
number="1",
pages="63-75",
abstract="This essay examines embodied representations of the past in two of the most popular penny serials of the 1840s, G.W.M. Reynolds's &quot;The Mysteries of London&quot; and James Malcolm Rymer's &quot;Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood.&quot; The cadaverous &quot;Resurrection man&quot; of &quot;The Mysteries&quot; and Sir Francis Varney the Vampire -- both villains figured as irrepressible, resurrected corpses -- corporealize the inescapable return of personal and political history. Functioning as shadowy doubles of their serials' virtuous heroes, these corpse-villains trouble melodramatic distinctions between virtue and vice, and their own deeply contradictory histories disrupt their novels' engagements with historical presence and historical agency.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-5222",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}