Reading vampire gothic through blood : bloodlines / Aspasia Stephanou, independent scholar, Cyprus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephanou, Aspasia, author.

Series:

Palgrave gothic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires in mass media.

Blood--Symbolic aspects.

Blood.

Blood--Social aspects.

Blood--Folklore.

Human body in mass media.

Blood in literature.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

viii, 226 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the promiscuous circulations of blood in science and philosophy, vampire novels, films and vampire communities to draw a vascular map of the symbolic meanings of blood and its association with questions of identity and the body. Stephanou seeks to explain present-day biotechnologies, global neoliberal biopolitics and capitalism, feminine disease and monstrosity, race, and vampirism by looking to the past and analysing how blood was constituted historically. By tracing the transformations of blood symbols and metaphors, as they bleed from early modernity into the complex arterial networks of global and corporate culture, it is possible to open new veins of signification in the otherwise exhausted and dry landscape of vampire scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 A Matter of Life and Death: Transfusing Blood from a Supernatural Past to Scientific Modernity and Vampiric Technology 21

2 The Biopolitics of the Vampire Narrative: Vampire Epidemics, AIDS and Bioterrorism 47

3 'Tis My Heart, Be Sure, She Eats for Her Food': Female Consumptives and Female Consumers 74

4 'Race as Biology Is Fiction': The Bad Blood of the Vampire 99

5 'The Sunset of Humankind Is the Dawn of the Blood Harvest': Blood Banks, Synthetic Blood and Haemocommerce 120

6 'Many People Have Vampires in Their Blood': 'Real' Vampire Communities 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137349224

1137349220

OCLC:

873725229