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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.
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"This is a fascinating study of blood symbolism in a variety of vampiric contexts, which demonstrates an impressive breadth of cultural understanding from the medieval to the present day. The analysis of biomedicine and its relationship to a neoliberal political agenda is masterly. It is to the author's credit that they bring together so many diverse, but related, strands in such a convincing and intellectually exciting way. This is an important book for anyone interested in the political agendas of our age." - Dr Andrew Smith, Reader in Nineteenth Century English Literature, University of Sheffield and past president of the International Gothic Association
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About the author
Aspasia Stephanou recently completed her PhD at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where she was also a tutor. She is co-editor of Transgressions and Its Limits (with Matt Foley and Neil McRobert, 2012) and has published on race and the vampire, transgression and blood in contemporary performance art, globalisation and vampire communities, and Black Metal Theory in a range of international journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
Book Subtitle: Bloodlines
Authors: Aspasia Stephanou
Series Title: Palgrave Gothic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349231
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34922-4Published: 25 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46784-6Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34923-1Published: 17 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-6214
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6222
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 226
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Film History, Sociology of the Body, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Cultural Studies