Gender in the Vampire Narrative.
Hobson, Amanda.
Gender in the Vampire Narrative. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Teaching Gender Series ; v.8 . - Teaching Gender Series .
Intro -- Gender in the Vampire Narrative -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dark Seductress: The Hypersexualization of the Female Vampire -- 3. Hybrid Heroines and the Naturalization of Women's Violence in Urban Fantasy Fiction -- 4. Men That Suck: Gender Anxieties and the Evolution of Vampire Men -- 5. "There Will Never Be More Than Two of Us": The Twilight Saga's Monstrous Mothers -- 6. Sex, Blood, and Death: Vampires and Child-Rearing -- 7. Beautifully Broken: True Blood's Tara Thornton as the Black Best Friend -- 8. A Feminist Bloodletting: Reading Suicide in Florence Marryat and Angela Carter -- 9. Vampiras and Vampiresas: Latinas in the Graphic Novels Bite Club and Life Sucks -- 10. "You Were Such a Good Girl When You Were Human": Gender and Subversion in The Vampire Diaries -- 11. Performative Femininity and Female Invalidism in John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and S.T. Coleridge's Christabel -- 12. The Female Vampire in Popular Culture: Or What to Read or Watch Next -- About The Contributors.
Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes.
9789463007146
Electronic books.
L1-991
Gender in the Vampire Narrative. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (206 pages) - Teaching Gender Series ; v.8 . - Teaching Gender Series .
Intro -- Gender in the Vampire Narrative -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dark Seductress: The Hypersexualization of the Female Vampire -- 3. Hybrid Heroines and the Naturalization of Women's Violence in Urban Fantasy Fiction -- 4. Men That Suck: Gender Anxieties and the Evolution of Vampire Men -- 5. "There Will Never Be More Than Two of Us": The Twilight Saga's Monstrous Mothers -- 6. Sex, Blood, and Death: Vampires and Child-Rearing -- 7. Beautifully Broken: True Blood's Tara Thornton as the Black Best Friend -- 8. A Feminist Bloodletting: Reading Suicide in Florence Marryat and Angela Carter -- 9. Vampiras and Vampiresas: Latinas in the Graphic Novels Bite Club and Life Sucks -- 10. "You Were Such a Good Girl When You Were Human": Gender and Subversion in The Vampire Diaries -- 11. Performative Femininity and Female Invalidism in John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and S.T. Coleridge's Christabel -- 12. The Female Vampire in Popular Culture: Or What to Read or Watch Next -- About The Contributors.
Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes.
9789463007146
Electronic books.
L1-991