Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines PDF
Preview Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood ThePalgraveGothicSeries SeriesEditor:CliveBloom EditorialAdvisoryBoard:Dr Ian Conrich,UniversityofSouthAustralia,Barry Forshaw,author/journalist,UK, ProfessorGreggKucich,UniversityofNotreDame,USA,ProfessorGinaWisker, UniversityofBrighton,UK. Thisseriesofgothicbooksisthefirsttotreatthegenreinitsmanyinter-related, globaland‘extended’culturalaspectstoshowhowthetasteforthemedievaland thesublimegaverisetoaperversetasteforterrorandhorrorandhowthattaste becamenotonlyinternational(withahugefanbaseinplacessuchasSouthKorea andJapan)butalsothesensibilityofthemodernage,changingourattitudesto such diverse areas as the nature of the artist, the meaning of drug abuse and the concept of the self. The series is accessible but scholarly, with referencing kepttoaminimumandtheorycontextualisedwherepossible.Allthebooksare readablebyanintelligentstudentoraknowledgeablegeneralreaderinterested inthesubject. BarryForshaw BRITISHGOTHICCINEMA MargaritaGeorgieva THEGOTHICCHILD DavidJ.Jones SEXUALITYANDTHEGOTHICMAGICLANTERN Desire,EroticismandLiteraryVisibilitiesfromByrontoBramStoker AspasiaStephanou READINGVAMPIREGOTHICTHROUGHBLOOD Bloodlines CatherineWynne BRAMSTOKER,DRACULAANDTHEVICTORIANGOTHICSTAGE ThePalgraveGothicSeries SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–1–137–27637–7(hardback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to usattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesand theISBNquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS,England Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood Bloodlines Aspasia Stephanou IndependentScholar,Cyprus ©AspasiaStephanou2014 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthisworkin accordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN978–1–137–34922–4 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Stephanou,Aspasia. Readingvampiregothicthroughblood:bloodlines/AspasiaStephanou, independentscholar,Cyprus. pagescm Summary:“ReadingVampireGothicThroughBloodexaminesthe promiscuouscirculationsofbloodinscienceandphilosophy,vampire novels,filmsandvampirecommunitiestodrawavascularmapofthe symbolicmeaningsofbloodanditsassociationwithquestionsofidentity andthebody.Stephanouseekstoexplainpresent-daybiotechnologies, globalneoliberalbiopoliticsandcapitalism,femininediseaseand monstrosity,race,andvampirismbylookingtothepastandanalysing howbloodwasconstitutedhistorically.Bytracingthetransformations ofbloodsymbolsandmetaphors,astheybleedfromearlymodernityinto thecomplexarterialnetworksofglobalandcorporateculture,itis possibletoopennewveinsofsignificationintheotherwiseexhausted anddrylandscapeofvampirescholarship”—Providedbypublisher. ISBN978–1–137–34922–4(hardback) 1. Vampiresinmassmedia. 2. Blood—Symbolicaspects. 3. Blood— Socialaspects. 4. Blood—Folklore. 5. Humanbodyinmassmedia. 6. Bloodinliterature. I. Title. PN56.V3S742014 809(cid:2).93375—dc23 2014019301 To my parents, Eftychios and Eftychia Christodoulou This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements viii Introduction:BloodBank:AHistoryoftheSymbolicsofBlood 1 1 AMatterofLifeandDeath:TransfusingBloodfroma SupernaturalPasttoScientificModernityandVampiric Technology 21 2 TheBiopoliticsoftheVampireNarrative:Vampire Epidemics,AIDSandBioterrorism 47 3 ‘’TisMyHeart,BeSure,SheEatsforHerFood’:Female ConsumptivesandFemaleConsumers 74 4 ‘RaceasBiologyIsFiction’:TheBadBloodoftheVampire 99 5 ‘TheSunsetofHumankindIstheDawnoftheBloodHarvest’: BloodBanks,SyntheticBloodandHaemocommerce 120 6 ‘ManyPeopleHaveVampiresinTheirBlood’:‘Real’ VampireCommunities 138 Conclusion:TheBloodoftheVampire:Globalisation, ResistanceandtheSacred 165 Notes 173 Bibliography 208 Index 222 vii Acknowledgements I am eternally grateful to my parents for their support, sacrifices and their unwavering love. Their generosity is poorly reciprocated with thisgift. My heartfeltthanksgotomy partner,Dr AndrewJ.Sneddon,whose devotion, patience and constant encouragement have made possible the completion of this work. He has always been my first and most demandingreader.Inmanywaysthisbookisalsodedicatedtohim. I would like to thank Professor Glennis Byron and Professor Fred Bottingfortheirsupportandconstructivecomments. viii Introduction Blood Bank: A History of the Symbolics of Blood The blood had a will of its own, each strand moving blindly, instinctivelyupward,traversingthesoil,hiddenfromthesun, seeking a host. This is the manner in which the blood worms were born. Within them they contained the remnant of the human blood, tinting their tissue, guiding them toward the scentoftheirpotentialhost.Butalsowithinthemtheycarried thewilloftheiroriginalflesh.Thewillofthearms,thewings, thethroat...1 In the above quotation blood is a metaphor for vampirism, carrying within it both monstrosity and traces of its opposite, humanity. The scentofpotentialdrawstheproteanbloodwormsfromunformeddark- ness towards the solidity of flesh. On this journey blood as a symbol itself evolves. By shifting focus from a stringently vampire-based anal- ysistoonethatrecognisestheliquidityandtransformationofsymbols and metaphors, as they bleed from early modernity into the complex arterial networks of global and corporate culture, it is possible to open newveinsofsignificationintheotherwiseexhaustedanddrylandscape ofvampirescholarship. Dipping the pen into blood in order to write about the vampire is a two-fold task. First, an analysis based on the circulations of blood in different eras and mediums depends on tropes, metaphors and metonymies of blood to convey its rich meanings, transformations and transgressions. Carrying within it the potential both to pollute and to preserve, blood is subversive and conservative, maintaining the economy of the same, but also challenging it. In this vein it is both metonymy—the same; and metaphor—difference. It polices bound- aries while attacking them with bloody fervour. As blood’s symbolics 1
The list of books you might like
