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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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
• Palgrave gothic series.

Subject

• Vampires in mass media
• Blood > Symbolic aspects
• Blood > Social aspects
• Blood > Folklore
• Human body in mass media
• Blood in literature
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• Blood
• Blood > Social aspects
• Vampires in mass media
• Blood
• Blood > Symbolic aspects
• Human body in mass media
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
• Film: styles & genres
• Popular culture
• Literature

Genre/Form

Folklore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1.A Matter of Life and Death: Transfusing Blood from a Supernatural Past to Scientific Modernity and Vampiric Technology -- 2.The Biopolitics of the Vampire Narrative: Vampire Epidemics, AIDS, and Bioterrorism -- 3.''Tis My Heart, Be Sure, She Eats for Her Food': Female Consumptives and Female Consumers -- 4.'Race as Biology is Fiction': The Bad Blood of the Vampire -- 5.'The Sunset of Humankind is the Dawn of the Blood Harvest': Blood Banks, Synthetic Blood and Haemocommerce -- 6.'Many People have Vampires in their Blood': 'Real' Vampire Communities -- Conclusion: The Blood of the Vampire: Globalisation, Resistance and the Sacred.

ISBN

• 9781137349224 (hardback)
• 1137349220 (hardback)

LCCN

• ^^2014019301
• 40023995500

OCLC

• 873725229
• SCSB-10521060

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library