{"product_id":"blood-read-9780812216288","title":"Blood Read","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blood Read is a fresh look at an old form, offering lively, lucid insights into the contemporary explosion of vampire fiction. Nothing else like it exists. This book should set the terms for discussion about vampires for some time to come.\"-Brian Attebery, Idaho State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Vampires—The Ancient Fear\u003cbr\u003e —Brian Aldiss\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: The Shape of Vampires\u003cbr\u003e —Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger\u003cbr\u003e 2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed\u003cbr\u003e -Nina Auerbach\u003cbr\u003e 3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door\u003cbr\u003e —Jules Zanger\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction\u003cbr\u003e —Margaret L. Carter\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother\u003cbr\u003e —Joan Gordon\u003cbr\u003e 6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry\u003cbr\u003e —Suzy McKee Charnas\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood\u003cbr\u003e —Brian Stableford\u003cbr\u003e 8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction\u003cbr\u003e —Jewelle Gomez\u003cbr\u003e 9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire\u003cbr\u003e —Sandra Tomc\u003cbr\u003e 10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan\u003cbr\u003e —Nicola Nixon\u003cbr\u003e 11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld\u003cbr\u003e —Rob Latham\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins\u003cbr\u003e —Miriam Jones\u003cbr\u003e 13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction\u003cbr\u003e —Trevor Holmes\u003cbr\u003e 14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire\u003cbr\u003e —Mari Kotani\u003cbr\u003e 15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire\u003cbr\u003e —Veronica Hollinger\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Films Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405691232599,"sku":"9780812216288","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812216288.jpg?v=1730493292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blood-read-9780812216288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}