Blood Read : The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture

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Blood Read : The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Author: Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 1997
Country: USA
264 pages

Description:
Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Blood Read examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars and shows how these transformations reflect ongoing changes in postmodern culture.

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Chapters on gay content include: 'The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins' and 'Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction'.

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