Research Catalog

Title

Reading vampire gothic through blood : bloodlines / Aspasia Stephanou, independent scholar, Cyprus.

Author

Stephanou, Aspasia

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Details

Description

viii, 226 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the promiscuous circulations of blood in science and philosophy, vampire novels, films and vampire communities to draw a vascular map of the symbolic meanings of blood and its association with questions of identity and the body. Stephanou seeks to explain present-day biotechnologies, global neoliberal biopolitics and capitalism, feminine disease and monstrosity, race, and vampirism by looking to the past and analysing how blood was constituted historically. By tracing the transformations of blood symbols and metaphors, as they bleed from early modernity into the complex arterial networks of global and corporate culture, it is possible to open new veins of signification in the otherwise exhausted and dry landscape of vampire scholarship"--

Series Statement

Palgrave gothic series

Uniform Title

Palgrave gothic series.

Subject

• Vampires in mass media
• Blood > Symbolic aspects
• Blood > Social aspects
• Blood > Folklore
• Human body in mass media
• Blood in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFD 14-4231

ISBN

• 9781137349224 (hardback)
• 1137349220 (hardback)

LCCN

2014019301

OCLC

873725229

Author

Stephanou, Aspasia, author.

Title

Reading vampire gothic through blood : bloodlines / Aspasia Stephanou, independent scholar, Cyprus.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave gothic series

Palgrave gothic series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-4231