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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
ISBN
1137349220, 9781137349224
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
908 kB (929583 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Gothic
Pages
240\235
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-09-30 22:49:33

Description

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.

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