Postmillennial Vampire

Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-06
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:113
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319483719

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Susan Chaplin specialises in Romanticism and Gothic Literature from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published extensively in these fields. Her works include The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820, Gothic Literature: Texts, Contexts, Connections, The Romanticism Handbook (edited with Professor Joel Faflak), The Frankenstein Workbook, and Law, Literature and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Vampire, the Scapegoat and the Sacred King.- Chapter 2. From Blood Bonds to Brand Loyalties.- Chapter 3. ‘Nothing is Real, Everything is Permitted’.- Chapter 4. Contagion, Simulation, Capital.- Bibliography.