The modern vampire and human identity / edited by Deborah Mutch, De Montfort University, UK.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mutch, Deborah, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
• English fiction.
• Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
• Horror tales, English.
• American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
• American fiction.
• Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
• Horror tales, American.
• Vampires in literature.
• Vampire films--History and criticism.
• Vampire films.
• Vampires on television.

Physical Description:

xii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Why are we surrounded by vampires in the twenty-first century? From the global phenomena of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse, through films such as Underworld and Blade, television series such as The Vampire Diaries and Being Human, to video games like Bloodrayne and Legacy of Kain, the reader, viewer and player has never had so many vampires to choose from. This collection considers the importance of the current flurry of vampires for our sense of human identity. Vampires have long been read as bodies through which our sense of ourselves has been reflected back to us. These essays offer readings of the modern vampire as a complex consideration of our modern human selves. Now that we no longer see the vampire as essentially evil, what does that say about us? Book jacket.

Contents:

• Introduction: "a swarm of chuffing draculas": the vampire in English and American literature / Deborah Mutch
• Blood, bodies, books: Kim Newman and the vampire as cultural text / Keith Scott
• Buffy vs. Bella: gender, relationships and the modern vampire / Bethan Jones
• "Hell! was I becoming a vampyre slut?": sex, sexuality and morality in young adult vampire fiction / Hannah Priest
• Consuming clothes and dressing desire in the Twilight series / Sarah Heaton
• Whiteness and the contemporary vampire in film and television / Ewan Kirkland
• The vampiric diaspora: the complications of victimhood and post-memory as configured in the Jewish migrant vampire / Simon Bacon
• Vampires and gentiles: Jews, Mormons and embracing the other / Clare Reed
• Transcending the massacre: vampire Mormons in the Twilight series / Yael Maurer
• The gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice / Victoria Amador
• Matt Haig's the Radleys: vampires for the neoliberal age / Deborah Mutch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780230370135
• 0230370136

OCLC:

807033099