Internet Resources: The Lord Ruthven Assembly

ADAMS, Donald K. Introduction to The Vampyre. 0967

ASH, RUSSELL. Introduction to The Vampyre. 0968

ASTLE, Richard S. "Ontological Ambiguity and Historical Pessimism in Polidori's ' The Vampyre.' " 0969

BARBOUR, Judith. "Dr. John William Polidori, Author of the Vampyre." In Imagining Romanticism: Essays on English and Australian Romanticisms, eds. Deidre Coleman, Peter Otto. West Cornwall, CT; Locust Hill, 1992: 85-110.

BLEILER, E. F. Introduction to The Vampyre. 0970

BOONE, Troy. "Mark of the Vampire: Arnod Paole, Sade, Polidori." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 18 (1995): 349-66. Uses Sade's Justine (1791) as a bridge between the infamous Medregia vampire case of Paole in the 1730's and Polidori's novel to chart a shift in the treatment of vampirism from "a well-contained menace to society" to a way of analyzing "the relations of sexuality and individualism, law and power. The violent combatants of Polidori's novel display the vampire's victorious mastery of homosocial relations and [the victim's] failure to dodge homoerotic desire."

BRUFFE, Kenneth A. "Elegiac Romance." 0605

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. "Gothic fiction, while opening up a narrative space in which Shelley and Polidori might. . . build a personal and cultural identity, also forces them to conjure up the spectre of a colonialist paradigm."

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. 0607

HARSON, Robert R. "A Profile of John Polidori with a New Edition of The Vampyre." 0608

HENDRICKSON-HODOVANCE, Vicki Jean. " Bloodlust 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). "The 'superfluous man' is a figure specific to the literature of nineteenth-century Russia, a character engendered by three Western literary progenitors: the Sentimental rake, the Gothic villain-hero, and the Fatal Man of the Romantics." Studies the character in four Russian and one English text: Karamzin's "Poor Liza," Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, Dostoevsky's Demons and Polidori's The Vampyre.

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

MACDONALD, D. L. & Kathleen SCHERF. Introduction to The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchthold; or, The Modern Oedipus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994: [data].

RIEGER, James. "Dr. Polidori and the Genesis of Frankenstein." 0971

SENF, Carol. "Polidori's The Vampyre: Combining the Gothic with Realism." 0610

SKARDA, Patricia L. "Vampirism and Plagiarism: Byron's Influence and Polidori's Practice." 0611

STABLEFORD, Brian. "POLIDORI, John (William)" In St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost, & Gothic Writers, Ed. David Pringle. Detroit: St. James Press/Gale, 1998: 455-456.

SWITZER, Richard. "Lord Ruthven and the Vampires." 0612

THOMSON, Douglass H. "John Polidori." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 344-348.

VIETS, Henry R. "The London Editions of Polidori's The Vampyre." 0973

________. " ' By the Visitation of God ': The Death of John William Polidori, M. D., in 1821." 0613

________. "John William Polidori, M. D. and Lord Byron--A Brief Interlude in 1816." 0614