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Title
Contagion and the vampire : the vampiric body as locus of disease and global epidemics in 21st century / Simon Bacon.
ISBN
9783031392023
3031392027
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (107 p.)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-39202-3 doi
Call Number
P96.V35
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.93375
Summary
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).
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
Patient Zero
Inviting the Wrong One In
The Body of the Vampire
References
2 Bodies
The Immortal Body
The Physical Body
Past and Future Bodies
References
3 Skin
Alien Skin
Voracious Skin
Medicalized Skin
References
4 Blood
Blood Is (Re)Life
Living Blood
Blood of Life
References
5 Breath
Something in the Air
Contagious Thoughts
Under the Shadow
Contagious Signals
Contagious Endings/Beginnings
References
Primary Texts Cited
Index
