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Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 Affinities : A Romance of To-Day
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'Praed’s interest in the relationship between culture and vampiric possession finds its most extensive and complex treatment in Affinities, which presents a portrait of Oscar Wilde in the guise of the psychic, or moral vampire.'

Source: McCann, Andrew. Rosa Praed and the Vampire Aesthete. USA: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       George Munro ,       1885 .
      Extent: 136, [20] pp.
      Series: y separately published work icon Seaside Library George Munro (publisher), 1877-1893 Z1171627 1877-1893 series - publisher This hugely successful mass-market fiction series appeared in both quarto and pocket editions from 1877 until the early years of the twentieth century. Number in series: 477
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Rosa Praed and the Vampire-Aesthete Andrew McCann , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Victorian Literature and Culture , March vol. 35 no. 1 2007; (p. 175-187) Explores the the ways in which Praed's occult-inspired novels deploy the figure of the vampire-aesthete, at the centre of both Affinities and The Soul of Countess Adrian, to introduce a self-reflexive relationship to the different economies of value in which they were embedded. In suggesting that Praed's vampire-aesthetes articulate anxieties about cultural value and influence in an imperial economy, I also want to diversify the provenance of the fin-de-si'ecle vampire.
Obscenity in Literature Colin Roderick , 1966 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literary Australia 1966; (p. 127-141)
Affinities for Henry James? Gabrielle Maupin Bielenstein , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 1957; (p. 196-199)
Rosa Praed and the Vampire-Aesthete Andrew McCann , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Victorian Literature and Culture , March vol. 35 no. 1 2007; (p. 175-187) Explores the the ways in which Praed's occult-inspired novels deploy the figure of the vampire-aesthete, at the centre of both Affinities and The Soul of Countess Adrian, to introduce a self-reflexive relationship to the different economies of value in which they were embedded. In suggesting that Praed's vampire-aesthetes articulate anxieties about cultural value and influence in an imperial economy, I also want to diversify the provenance of the fin-de-si'ecle vampire.
Obscenity in Literature Colin Roderick , 1966 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literary Australia 1966; (p. 127-141)
Affinities for Henry James? Gabrielle Maupin Bielenstein , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 1957; (p. 196-199)
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