Blood Read
Subtitle: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Contributors: Joan Gordon (Editor); Veronica Hollinger (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780812216288
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Horror tales, American; American fiction; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Vampires in literature; USA; Horror; Popular Culture - General; Popular culture; Social Science : Popular Culture - General; American - General; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: Un ambiguously coded figure, a source of both erotic anxiety and corrupt desire, the literary vampire is one of the most powerful archetypes bequeathed to us from the imagination of the nineteenth century.