The Modern Vampire and Human Identity

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction 'A Swarm of Chuffing Draculas': the Vampire in English and American Literature; D.Mutch Blood, Bodies, Books: Kim Newman and the Vampire as Cultural Text; K.Scott Buffy vs. Bella: Gender, Relationships and the Modern Vampire; B.Jones 'Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?': Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction; H.Priest Consuming Clothes and Dressing Desire in the Twilight Series; S.Heaton Whiteness and the Contemporary Vampire in Film and Television; E.Kirkland The Vampiric Diaspora: The Complications of Victim Hood and Post-Memory as Configured in the Jewish Migrant Vampire; S.Bacon Vampires and Gentiles: Jews, Mormons and Embracing the Other; C.Reed Transcending the Massacre: Vampire Mormons in the Twilight Series; Y.Maurer The Gothic Louisiana of Charlaine Harris and Anne Rice; V.Amador Matt Haig's The Radleys: Vampires for the Neoliberal Age; D.Mutch References