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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Woman Wailing for Her Demon-Lover!; 2. Demons as Lovers; 3. ""The Demon Lover"" Ballad; 4. The Motif in British Fiction; 5. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims; Appendix A. Child Ballad Texts; Appendix B....
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Woman Wailing for Her Demon-Lover!; 2. Demons as Lovers; 3. ""The Demon Lover"" Ballad; 4. The Motif in British Fiction; 5. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims; Appendix A. Child Ballad Texts; Appendix B. Davis Ballad Texts; Appendix C. Miscellaneous Ballad Texts; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. The hero of the story is a demonic lover -- dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine -- beautiful, and innocent -- willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interes
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