This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to
ideas of infection, pollution and disease—even more so in the
21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and
unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany
viral outbreaks and wider epidemics. Here the vampire gives
physical form to the contagion and associated anxieties around the
perceived causes and spread of disease, where it can take on many
forms from animal to pestilential particulate matter, creeping
shadows and even malignant weather systems. If blood is life, it is
the body of the vampire that is death. This timely study looks at
how and why the vampire continues to fulfil this function and
posits that the true patient zero in the 21st century is no longer
the dangerous, ancient, outsider from the East but is the undying
monster that is Western culture itself.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Simon Bacon
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
107 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-139201-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-03-139201-9 |
| Barcode: |
9783031392016 |
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