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The Modern Vampire and Human Identity

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  1. Deborah Mutch

    1. De Montfort University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: ‘A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas’: The Vampire in English and American Literature

    • Deborah Mutch
    Pages 1-17

  3. Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text

    • Keith Scott
    Pages 18-36

  4. Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire

    • Bethan Jones
    Pages 37-54

  5. ‘Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?’: Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction

    • Hannah Priest
    Pages 55-75

  6. Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight series

    • Sarah Heaton
    Pages 76-92

  7. Whiteness, Vampires and Humanity in Contemporary Film and Television

    • Ewan Kirkland
    Pages 93-110

  8. The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victimhood and Post-memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire

    • Simon Bacon
    Pages 111-127

  9. Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other

    • Clare Reed
    Pages 128-145

  10. Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series

    • Yael Maurer
    Pages 146-162

  11. The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice

    • Victoria Amador
    Pages 163-176

  12. Matt Haig’s The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age

    • Deborah Mutch
    Pages 177-193

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 194-220
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About this book

Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena of Twilight and True Blood, as well as authors such as Kim Newman and Matt Haig, films such as The Breed and Interview with the Vampire, and television programmes such as Being Human and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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'A truly important collection in Gothic and vampire studies, as well as for students and analysts of modern fiction, films, and television.' - Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • De Montfort University, UK

    Deborah Mutch

About the editor

VICTORIA AMADOR Assistant Professor in English at the American University in Sharjah, UAE SIMON BACON Independent Scholar SARAH HEATON Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of English at the University of Chester, UK BETHAN JONES PhD candidate in Journalism Studies at Cardiff University, UK EWAN KIRKLAND teaches Film and Screen Studies at the University of Brighton, UK YAEL MAURER Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel HANNAH PRIEST Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK CLARE REED Sessional lecturer at the University of Reading and the University of Portsmouth, UK KEITH SCOTT Subject Leader for English Language at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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