The Postmillennial Vampire : Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives
Chaplin, Susan
2017
PN770-PN779
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Title The Postmillennial Vampire : Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives
Author Chaplin, Susan
ISBN 9783319483726
3319483722
3319483714
9783319483719
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48372-6
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (IX, 113 pages) online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-48372-6 doi
Call Number PN770-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.04
Summary This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the vampire comes to embody and enact this 'sacred violence' through complex blood bonds that relate the vampire to the human in wholly new ways in the new millennium. Susan Chaplin specialises in Romanticism and Gothic Literature from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published extensively in these fields. Her works include The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820, Gothic Literature: Texts, Contexts, Connections, The Romanticism Handbook (edited with Professor Joel Faflak), The Frankenstein Workbook, and Law, Literature and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction
Note This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the vampire comes to embody and enact this 'sacred violence' through complex blood bonds that relate the vampire to the human in wholly new ways in the new millennium. Susan Chaplin specialises in Romanticism and Gothic Literature from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published extensively in these fields. Her works include The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820, Gothic Literature: Texts, Contexts, Connections, The Romanticism Handbook (edited with Professor Joel Faflak), The Frankenstein Workbook, and Law, Literature and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction
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Introduction
Chapter 1. The Vampire, the Scapegoat and the Sacred King
Chapter 2. From Blood Bonds to Brand Loyalties
Chapter 3. 'Nothing is Real, Everything is Permitted'
Chapter 4. Contagion, Simulation, Capital
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