The Modern Vampire and Human Identity

1. Introduction: ‘A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas’: The Vampire in English and American Literature
Deborah Mutch

2. Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text
Keith Scott

3. Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire
Bethan Jones

4. ‘Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?’: Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction
Hannah Priest

5. Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight series
Sarah Heaton

6. Whiteness, Vampires and Humanity in Contemporary Film and Television
Ewan Kirkland

7. The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victimhood and Post-memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire
Simon Bacon

8. Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other
Clare Reed

9. Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series
Yael Maurer

10. The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice
Victoria Amador

11. Matt Haig’s The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age
Deborah Mutch

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