Acknowledgments
Introduction / Claudia Bucciferro
[Part I]: Contextualizing Twilight's Appeal
Mythic Themes, Archetypes, and Metaphors: The Foundations of Twilight's Cross-Cultural Appeal / Claudia Bucciferro
Manifest Destiny Forever: The Twilight Saga, History, and a Vampire's American Dream / Michelle Maloney-Mangold
Reading Twilight: Fandom, Romance, and Gender in the Age of Bella / Barbara Chambers and Robert Peaslee
[Part II]: Twilight Audiences
"Twilight Moms" and the "Female Midlife Crisis": Life Transitions, Fantasy, and Fandom / Laura K. Dorsey-Elson
Twilight and Twitter: An Ethnographic Study / Michelle Groover
Twilight Anti-fans: "Real" Fans and "Real" Vampires / Victoria Godwin
[Part III]: Characters and Their Cultural Referents
Renesmee as (R)omantic Child: A Glimpse into Bella and Edward's Fairy Tale Cottage / Lisa Nevarez
Isabella Swan: A Twenty-First Century Victorian Heroine? / Gaiane Hanser
"Doesn't He Own a Shirt?": Rivalry and Masculine Embodiment in Twilight / Nicole Willms
[Part IV]: Issues of Gender, Sex, Class, and Race in Twilight
Chastity, Power, and Delayed Gratification: The Lure of Sex in the Twilight Saga / Brynn Buskirk
Alice, Bella, and Economics: Financial Security and Class Mobility in Twilight / Paul Lucas
"I Know What You Are": A Philosophical Look at Race, Identity, and Mixed-Blood in the Twilight Universe / Michelle Bernard
[Part V]: Beyond the Twilight Universe
Mainstream Monsters: The Otherness of Humans in Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood / Emma Somogyi and Mark David Ryan
Individuality and Collectivity in The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Twilight / Lisa Weckerle
From Twilight to Fifty Shades of Grey: Fan Fiction, Commercial Culture, and Grassroots Creativity / Sonia Baelo-Allue
Closing Thoughts / Claudia Bucciferro
Index
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