From the vampires Lestat and Louis to a sexually liberated Sleeping
Beauty, novelist Anne Rice has created a host of characters who are
notable for their paradoxical combinations of the deviant and the
conventional. Exit to Eden, for example, ends with the
sado-masochistic protagonists embarking on a traditional monogamous
heterosexual relationship, while the vampires often long to
exchange their erotic immortality for "ordinary" mortal lives and
loves. This scholarly analysis of the seemingly incompatible
elements of the subversive and the socially acceptable in Rice's
early work covers her career from the landmark Interview with the
Vampire (1976) to Lasher (1993). Each chapter tackles a different
aspect of Rice's conflicting portrayals of sexual issues, including
homophobia, pedophilia, castration anxiety, and the vast array of
gender stereotypes and roles that her novels so often interpret and
exploit. This study is appropriate both for readers of Rice's
writing and those intrigued by issues of sexual politics and the
ways in which a popular author both embraces and repudiates some of
the most shocking concepts of sexuality. An index and bibliography
are included to aid research.
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