Vampiric transformations: the popular politics of the (post) romantic vampire
Vampiric Transformations emerged from an ongoing research collaboration, through which the editors and contributors to this Special Issue explored the idealism that surrounds the figure of the vampire in relation to the persistence of – and resistance to – (post) Romanticist ideas within the genres...
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| Published in: | Continuum (Mount Lawley, W.A.) Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 171 - 177 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon
Routledge
04-03-2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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| Summary: | Vampiric Transformations emerged from an ongoing research collaboration, through which the editors and contributors to this Special Issue explored the idealism that surrounds the figure of the vampire in relation to the persistence of – and resistance to – (post) Romanticist ideas within the genres of the fantastic. Our earlier research pursued pathways of inquiry relating to changing representations of the vampire in popular fiction and entertainment culture, such as tropes of hospitality and violation, the formation of vampiric identity, taste and fan culture, conventions of desire and the tensions between death and longevity that the figure of the vampire so frequently invokes (Baker, Green, Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska Citation2017). In Vampiric Transformations we set out to take a fresh approach; to consider the vampire as a social and political figure, one that encapsulates an ambivalent idealism forged partly from its European late-Romanticist formation as a popular monster/hero. |
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| ISSN: | 1030-4312 1469-3666 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10304312.2021.1936822 |