Fanged Fan Fiction

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth is an associate professor of English literature at the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University in Sweden. Malin Isaksson is an assistant professor of French literature at Umeå University.

“valuable...detailed insight”—Transformative Works and Cultures; “well-researched, passionate, and entertaining, and furthermore it is admirable for its open-minded approach to fanfic, which is analysed with the same seriousness as any other literary body of texts. It is an excellent introduction to fan fiction in general and to the invisible ‘dark matter’ surrounding vampire block-busters and best-sellers in particular”—NORA—Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research; “the book is a valuable addition to studies of both the literary vampire and of fan texts”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface Introduction: Transfusions, Transformations, Transgressions 1. Single White Females and Sympathetic Vampires: The Canons 2. Vampiric Prosumption: Archives, Genres and Fans’ Negotiations of Rules3. The Archive of New Stories Interlude: The Normal Discussion 4. Canon­Transgressive Lemony Goodness: Sexual Norms and Undead Desires5. Something Wicked This Way Comes: Ethics, Monstrosity and Issues of the SoulConclusion: The Vampire Archived and Re­FangedChapter Notes Works CitedIndex