@article{1475958,
      recid = {1475958},
      author = {Bacon, Simon,},
      title = {Contagion and the vampire : the vampiric body as locus of  disease and global epidemics in 21st century /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource (107 p.)},
      year = {2023},
      note = {Description based upon print version of record.},
      abstract = {This book examines how the vampire has always been  connected to ideas of infection, pollution and diseaseeven  more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors  of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and  anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics.  Here the vampire gives physical form to the contagion and  associated anxieties around the perceived causes and spread  of disease, where it can take on many forms from animal to  pestilential particulate matter, creeping shadows and even  malignant weather systems. If blood is life, it is the body  of the vampire that is death. This timely study looks at  how and why the vampire continues to fulfil this function  and posits that the true patient zero in the 21st century  is no longer the dangerous, ancient, outsider from the East  but is the undying monster that is Western culture itself.  Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Pozna,  Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including  Becoming Vampire (2017), Eco-vampires (2019), Nosferatu in  the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2  volumes, 2023), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire  (forthcoming).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1475958},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39202-3},
}