Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.

Autorentext

Aspasia Stephanou recently completed her PhD at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where she was also a tutor. She is co-editor of Transgressions and Its Limits (with Matt Foley and Neil McRobert, 2012) and has published on race and the vampire, transgression and blood in contemporary performance art, globalisation and vampire communities, and Black Metal Theory in a range of international journals.

Inhalt

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 Bibliography Index