Growing Up with Vampires

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has authored and edited many volumes on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies. Katarzyna Bronk is an assistant professor of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the history of English literature and studies representations of aging.

“Bacon and Bronk have put together an interesting, informative, and entertaining anthology, and I would suggest this book to anyone fascinated with monster lore or the way children’s texts can harbor deep meaning.”—Judy Clemens, author of Beyond the Grave, a Grim Reaper Mystery

• Table of ContentsIntroduction (Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk)Section One: Children’s Media—Chronologies and MediumsChildren of the Night: Mainstreaming Vampires Through Children’s Media (Andrew M. Boylan)An Invitation to a Beheading (and Another to a Birthday Bash): Encountering Dracula in Contemporary Gothic Metamorphoses Books(Jen Baker)The Drawn Daughters of Dracula: Vampire Girlhood in British Comics of the 1970s and 1980s (Jack Fennell)Section Two: Negotiating Femininity and IdentityJeepers Creepers: The American Vampirization of the Female Immigrant Teacher in Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots (Sharon Pajka)Under Her Batwings: Jung’s Shadow Aspect as Depicted in Monster High and My Little Pony Vampires (Jacquelyn E. Bent)Metamorphosis of the Blood: Vampiric Femininity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction (Chloé Germaine Buckley)Problematic Parenting: Tweens and Vampire Fiction (Leslie J. Ormandy)Section Three: Symbolism, Meanings and InterpretationsDick and Jane and Vampires: The Interstitial Bridge Between Social Imaginary and Spirituality (Phil Fitzsimmons)The Dhampir Gets His Fangs: Miscegenation and Exogamy in the Hotel Transylvania Film Franchise (Mark Chekares)Food for Thought: Vegetarian Vampires in Children’s Reading Diets (Jane M. Kubiesa)Every Generation Gets the Vampire It Needs: What Can Vampire Narratives in Children’s Films Tell Us About Childhood in the ­Twenty-First Century? (Allison Moore)Looking Back and Seeing the Future: Adult Nostalgia and Negotiating the Future in Children’s Books and Films Featuring Vampires (Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk)About the ContributorsIndex