Research Catalog

Title

True blood and philosophy : we wanna think bad things with you / edited by George A. Dunn and Rebecca Housel.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Dunn, George A., 1957-
• Housel, Rebecca.

Description

x, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

In a world where vampires, werewolves, and fairies coexist with human beings, the characters in Harris's books-- and the television show based on them-- wrestle with powerful desires while facing complex issues concerning sex, romance, bigotry, violence, death, and immortality.

Series Statement

The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series

Uniform Title

Blackwell philosophy and popculture series

Subject

• Harris, Charlaine
• Harris, Charlaine > Philosophy
• True blood (Television program)
• Vampires in literature
• Werewolves in literature
• Vampires on television
• Werewolves on television
• Immortality (Philosophy)
• Philosophy in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : "If a tree falls in the woods, it's still a tree, ain't it?" -- part 1: "I used to hate vampires, until I got to know one" : vampire-human ethics. To turn or not to turn : the ethics of making vampires / Christopher Robichaud -- Dressing up and playing human : vampire assimilation in the human playground / Jennifer Culver -- Pets, cattle, and higher life forms on True Blood / Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn -- part 2: "Life-challenged individuals" : the politics of being dead. Signed in blood : rights and the vampire-human social contract / Joseph J. Foy -- "Honey, if we can't kill people, what's the point of being a vampire?" : can vampires be good citizens? / William M. Curtis -- Un-true blood : the politics of artificiality / Bruce A. McClelland -- part 3: "Their very blood is seductive" : eros, sexuality, and gender. Coming out of the coffin and coming out of the closet / Patricia Brace and Robert Arp -- "I am Sookie, hear me roar!" : Sookie Stackhouse and feminist ambivalence / Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell -- Sookie, Sigmund, and the edible complex / Ron Hirschbein -- part 4: "I am actually older than your Jesus" : natural, supernatural, and divine. Let the bon temps roll : sacrifice, scapegoats, and good times / Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn -- Are vampires unnatural? / Andrew Terjesen and Jenny Terjesen -- Does God hate fangs? / Adam Barkman -- part 5: "Our existence is insanity" : the metaphysics of supernatural beings. A vampire's heart has its reasons that scientific naturalism can't understand / Susan Peppers-Bates and Joshua Rust -- Keeping secrets from Sookie / Fred Curry -- Vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters : the more they change, the more they stay the same / Sarah Grubb -- Contributors: "I don't know who you think you are, but before the night is through ..." -- Index: Sookie's words of the day.

ISBN

• 9780470597729 (pbk.)
• 0470597720 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010013145

OCLC

• 607573950
• SCSB-11838368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library