Overview
- Proposes a fundamental reevaluation of the postmillenial gothic vampire narrative through the lens of René Girard
- Provides a philosophical insight into some of contemporary culture's most well known vampire stories
- Takes an interdisciplinary and cross-media approach to analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of contemporary vampire culture
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Postmillennial Vampire
Book Subtitle: Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives
Authors: Susan Chaplin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48372-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48371-9Published: 06 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48372-6Published: 23 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 113
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, American Cinema and TV, Genre