04228nam 22007455 450 991063393140332120230810180530.09783031183508(electronic bk.)3031183509(electronic bk.)9783031183492303118349510.1007/978-3-031-18350-8(MiAaPQ)EBC7150649(Au-PeEL)EBL7150649(CKB)25510412100041(OCoLC)1352967408(DE-He213)978-3-031-18350-8(EXLCZ)992551041210004120221130d2022 u| 0engurcz#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReading the Vegetarian Vampire /by Sophie Dungan1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (136 pages)Palgrave Gothic,2634-6222Print version: Dungan, Sophie Reading the Vegetarian Vampire Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031183492 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Of vampires and vegetarians -- Chapter 1: Rat’s blood and Rice: Interview with the proto-vegetarian vampire -- Chapter 2: ‘What, they were all out of boils and blinding torment?’: Chips, curses and choosing the animal-blood diet in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Chapter 3: Soymilk, sustainability and salvation in The Twilight Saga -- Chapter 4: Banked blood and bunnies: Ethical predation in The Vampire Diaries -- Chapter 5: True Blood and fake vegans: Artificiality and the Anthropocene -- Conclusion: Vampires in the Anthropocene and Beyond.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. 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.Palgrave Gothic,2634-6222Literature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryFictionGoth culture (Subculture)Animal welfareMoral and ethical aspectsEcocriticismContemporary LiteratureFiction LiteratureGothic StudiesAnimal EthicsEcocriticismLiterature, Modern20th century.Literature, Modern21st century.Fiction.Goth culture (Subculture).Animal welfareMoral and ethical aspects.Ecocriticism.Contemporary Literature.Fiction Literature.Gothic Studies.Animal Ethics.Ecocriticism.809.93375398.45Dungan Sophie1271403MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910633931403321Reading the Vegetarian Vampire2995192UNINA