The Modern Vampire and Human Identity

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: ‘A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas’: The Vampire in English and American Literature....Pages 1-17
Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text....Pages 18-36
Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire....Pages 37-54
‘Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?’: Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction....Pages 55-75
Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight series....Pages 76-92
Whiteness, Vampires and Humanity in Contemporary Film and Television....Pages 93-110
The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victimhood and Post-memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire....Pages 111-127
Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other....Pages 128-145
Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series....Pages 146-162
The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice....Pages 163-176
Matt Haig’s The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age....Pages 177-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-220