Blood Read
Subtitle: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Contributors: Joan Gordon (Editor); Veronica Hollinger (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780812234190
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; American Literature (Specific Aspects); Horror Fiction; Vampires in literature; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Horror - General; General; Popular Culture - General; American - General; 20th century; American fiction; Horror tales, American
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.