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Reading the Vegetarian Vampire

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Authors:
  1. Sophie Dungan

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Picks up on threads in Gothic studies, food studies, and human-animal studies
  • Details the emergence and significance of the vegetarian vampire
  • Contributes to situating vampire fiction within the ecogothic genre

Part of the book series: Palgrave Gothic (PAGO)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Vampires and Vegetarians

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 1-21

  3. Rat’s Blood and Rice: Interview with the Proto-vegetarian Vampire

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 23-37

  4. Pig’s Blood and the Politics of Choice in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 39-55

  5. Vegetarian Vampires: Twilight, Sustainability and Salvation

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 57-76

  6. Banked Blood and Bunnies: Ethical Predation in The Vampire Diaries

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 77-95

  7. Vegan Vampires: The Southern Vampire Mysteries and True Blood

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 97-121

  8. Conclusion: Vampires in the Anthropocene and Beyond

    • Sophie Dungan
    Pages 123-127

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 129-133
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About this book

This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called “vegetarian” vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the shift in the diet of (some) vampires, from human to animal or synthetic blood, responds to a growing ecological awareness that is rapidly reshaping our understanding of relations with others species. The book introduces the trope of the vegetarian vampire, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion: the Anthropocene, food studies, and the modern practice, politics and ideologies of vegetarianism. Drawing on references to recent historical contexts and developments in the genre more broadly, the book investigates the vegetarian vampire’s relationship to other more violent and monstrous forms of the vampire in popular twenty-first century horror cinema and television. Texts discussed include Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. Reading the Vegetarian Vampire examines a new aspect of contemporary interest in considering vampire fiction.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Sophie Dungan

About the author

Sophie Dungan is a teaching associate at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, Australia. Her primary research interests are in vampire studies, Gothic fiction, ecocriticism, food and Anthropocene studies.

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