Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gordon, Joan, 1947-, Hollinger, Veronica
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1997]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the shape of vampires / Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger
  • My vampire, my friend : the intimacy Dracula destroyed / Nina Auerbach
  • Metaphor into metonymy : the vampire next door / Jules Zanger
  • The vampire as alien in contemporary fiction / Margaret L. Carter
  • Sharper than a serpent's tooth : the vampire in search of its mother / Joan Gordon
  • Mediations in red : on writing The vampire tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas
  • Sang for supper : notes on the metaphorical use of vampires in The empire of fear and Young blood / Brian Stableford
  • Recasting the mythology : writing vampire fiction / Jewelle Gomez
  • Dieting and damnation : Anne Rice's Interview with the vampire / Sandra Tomc
  • When Hollywood sucks, or Hungry girls, lost boys, and vampirism in the age of Reagan / Nicola Nixon
  • Consuming youth : the lost boys cruise mallworld / Rob Latham
  • The Gilda stories : revealing the monsters at the margins / Miriam Jones
  • Coming out of the coffin : gay males and queer goths in contemporary vampire fiction / Trevor Holmes
  • Techno-Gothic Japan : from Seishi Yokomizo's The death's-head stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the vampire / Mari Kotani
  • Fantasies of absence : the postmodern vampire / Veronica Hollinger.