Origins of the Modern Vampire: The Femme Fatale

Nikki explores the literary and historical origins of the female vampire during the Romantic and Victorian periods. The video culminates in an analysis of THE most notorious female vampire of the 19th century: Le Fanu's CARMILLA from IN A GLASS DARKLY (1872).

~*FURTHER READING*~
The Vampire: A New History (2018) - Nick Groom
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/his...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
https://www.valmcbeath.com/victorian-...
Lenore (1774) – Gottfried August Bürger https://eclecticlight.co/2018/09/30/t...
The Bride of Corinth (1798) – Goethe https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p...
Christabel (1816) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lamia (1819) – John Keats
Stress of Her Regard (1989) – Tim Powers
Vampire Bride (1833) – Henry Thomas Liddell
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/bo...
https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/divi...
https://www.thecollector.com/sarah-be... https://short-history.com/the-insatia...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...
Hamlet (1609) – William Shakespeare
https://www.thecollector.com/shakespe...
Jane Eyre (1847) – Charlotte Brontë
Metamorphoses of the Vampire (1852) – Baudelaire
The Vampire (1897) – Rudyard Kipling
The Old Curiosity Shop (1842) – Charles Dickens
Carmilla (1872) – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

~*TIME STAMPS*~
Intro: 0:00
Consumption Chic: 1:11
Early Literary Vampires: 3:58
Bürger's Lenore: 5:21
Goethe's Bride of Corinth: 10:07
Coleridge's Christabel: 13:44
Keats's Lamia: 15:17
Liddell's Vampire Bride: 21:34
French Courtesan & Muse - Marie Duplessis: 27:35
The First Superstar - Divine Sarah Bernhardt: 31:22
Shakespeare's Ophelia: 35:04
Causes of Vampirism: 36:46
Le Fanu's Carmilla: 38:31
Wrap-Up: 49:00

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~*MUSIC*~
Rescue Mission - Lupus Nocte (via epidemic sound)
Venus in Furs – The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
A Cold Wind – Savvun (via epidemic sound)
Calicifer – Jon Björk (via epidemic sound)

~*VIDEO CLIPS & STILLS*~
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Full Moon — kahbazar2 (via pixabay)
Mary Shelley (2017)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913)
Spooky Moon – Iconikmg (via pixabay)
Carmilla (2019)

~*ART*~
Love and Pain (1895) – Edvard Munch
Byron Aged 19 (1830) – George Sanders
John Keats (1822) – William Hilton
1880 Fashion Plate: https://fiveminutehistory.com/fashion...
A Collection of Portraits - Vampire Female - Voltairis
Le Vampire – de Moraine
The Return of the Army (1829) – Ary Scheffer
Lenore (1796) – William Blake
Illustrations for William Robert Spencer translation of The Ballad of Lenore (1796) – Lady Diana Beauclerk
Edgar Allan Poe — Nata Vedana: https://www.saatchiart.com/natavedana
Bride of Corinth (1894) - Gabriel von Max
So Half Way from the Bed She Rose, And on Her Elbow Did Recline to Look at the Lady Geraldine (1891) – H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed
Lamia: https://mythicalcreatures.info/charac...
Lamia – Jenny Chernansky
The Kiss of the Enchantress (1890) – Isobel Lilian Gloag
Lamia and the Soldier (1905) – J. W. Waterhouse
Lamia 2 (1909) – J. W. Waterhouse
The Death of Chatterton (1856) – Henry Wallis
Necrofashion – Katarzyna Widmanska
Carmilla Coffin – Neothera
Lord Byron (1935) - Thomas Phillips
Marie Duplessis (1847) – Édouard Viénot
Alexandre Dumas (1855)
The Vampire (1897) - Philip Burne-Jones
At a Dinner of Atheists (1873) – Félicien Rops
Sarah Bernhardt (1864) – Felix Nadar
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt – Georges Rochegrosse
Portraits of Sarah Bernhardt (1871, 1876) – Georges Clairin
... Starring Sarah Bernhardt (1890s) – Alphonse Mucha
Ophelia (1895) – Paul Albert Steck
Ophelia (1880) – Sarah Bernhardt
Self Portrait as a Chimera (1879) – Sarah Bernhardt
Postcard of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet (1899)
Sarah Bernhardt Coffin Photograph (1907)
Victor Hugo (1875) – Étienne Carjat
Ophelia (1890s) – Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hébert
Ophelia (1880) – Madeleine Lemaire
Ophelia (1851-52) – John Everett Millais
Carmilla Cover – Drawing Goose’s Cozy Corner
Carmilla illustrations (1871-72)– David Henry Friston
Herbersten Castle, Styria
Carmilla illustration (Carmen Maria Machado, ed.)
Melanistic Leopard – Don Heyneke
Black Panther Under the Stars – Will Burrard-Lucas

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