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A vast undertaking--a tapestry of history, science, pseudoscience, theology, politics, and art. --Weekly Standard An authoritative take on the history of the vampire. --The New York Times Book Review Colossally smart. Groom is interested in undead Byron, but he is more interested in the aspects of vampirology that pop culture tends to neglect. It is a great relief to meet Groom's vampire, still icy from the void and unburdened by the aesthetic of Gothic nightingale-lite. --The New Yorker Each chapter displays a mastery of both the works in question--whether books or adaptations--and of the vast corpus of Tolkien scholarship. Narratives of literary production or of Hollywood bureaucratic processes rarely come as absorbing as Groom's. Illuminating. Groom's explorations of Tolkien's sources. are always provocative and often ingenious. --The Literary Review Fascinating. Wonderfully exhilarating. In a rousing finale, Groom suggests that Tolkien is exactly the writer we need at this particularly perilous moment, as we emerge, Hobbit-like, from our holes and try to imagine a new kind of life in this post-pandemic age. --The Mail on Sunday Impressively manages to analyze vampires' influence on almost every facet of private and public life--social, theological, political, medical, cultural, sexual, literary--over the span of four centuries. --Commonweal Advance praise from England for Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: Praise for The Vampire: A New History:

"""A modern journey through Tolkien's work, which has engendered a rich field of cultural activity. A thought-provoking examination. the authority of extensive research, Groom unpacks the reasons for the appeal of Tolkien to a new generation."" --Kirkus Reviews ""A vast undertaking--a tapestry of history, science, pseudoscience, theology, politics, and art.""--Weekly Standard ""An authoritative take on the history of the vampire.""--The New York Times Book Review ""Colossally smart. Groom is interested in undead Byron, but he is more interested in the aspects of vampirology that pop culture tends to neglect. It is a great relief to meet Groom's vampire, still icy from the void and unburdened by the aesthetic of Gothic nightingale-lite.""--The New Yorker ""Each chapter displays a mastery of both the works in question--whether books or adaptations--and of the vast corpus of Tolkien scholarship. Narratives of literary production or of Hollywood bureaucratic processes rarely come as absorbing as Groom's. Illuminating. Groom's explorations of Tolkien's sources. are always provocative and often ingenious.""--The Literary Review ""Fascinating. Wonderfully exhilarating. In a rousing finale, Groom suggests that Tolkien is exactly the writer we need at this particularly perilous moment, as we emerge, Hobbit-like, from our holes and try to imagine a new kind of life in this post-pandemic age.""--The Mail on Sunday ""Impressively manages to analyze vampires' influence on almost every facet of private and public life--social, theological, political, medical, cultural, sexual, literary--over the span of four centuries.""--Commonweal Advance praise from England for Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: Praise for The Vampire: A New History:"

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Nick Groom is currently Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, having previously held positions at the universities of Chicago, Stanford, and Exeter, where he holds an Honorary Professorship. His is the author of The Vampire: A New History (Yale University Press) among other books published in Britain.

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