Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood

1. Introduction Blood Bank: A History of the Symbolics of Blood
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2. A Matter of Life and Death: Transfusing Blood from a Supernatural Past to Scientific Modernity and Vampiric Technology
Aspasia Stephanou

3. The Biopolitics of the Vampire Narrative: Vampire Epidemics, AIDS and Bioterrorism
Aspasia Stephanou

4. ’ ‘Tis My Heart, Be Sure, She Eats for Her Food’: Female Consumptives and Female Consumers
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5. ‘Race as Biology Is Fiction’: The Bad Blood of the Vampire
Aspasia Stephanou

6. ‘The Sunset of Humankind Is the Dawn of the Blood Harvest’: Blood Banks, Synthetic Blood and Haemocommerce
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7. ‘Many People Have Vampires in Their Blood’: ‘Real’ Vampire Communities
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8. Conclusion The Blood of the Vampire: Globalisation, Resistance and the Sacred
Aspasia Stephanou

Nyckelord: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Film History, Sociology of the Body, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Cultural Studies