Dark Seductress

The archetype of the female vampire as the sexual temptress has been a part of vampire fiction since Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) and the Brides in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Our visual culture emphasizes the voracious sexuality of the female bod

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Teaching Gender Volume 8 Series Editor Patricia Leavy USA Scope Teaching Gender publishes monographs, anthologies and reference books that deal centrally with gender and/or sexuality. The books are intended to be used in undergraduate and graduate classes across the disciplines. The series aims to promote social justice with an emphasis on feminist, multicultural and critical perspectives. Please email queries to the series editor at [email protected] International Editorial Board Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University, USA Paula Banerjee, University of Calcutta, India Nitza Berkovitch, Ben Gurion University, Israel Robin Boylorn, University of Alabama, USA Máiréad Dunne, University of Sussex, UK Mary Holmes, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Laurel Richardson, Ohio State University, Emerita, USA Sophie Tamas, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Gender in the Vampire Narrative

Edited by Amanda Hobson Indiana State University, USA and U. Melissa Anyiwo Curry College, Massachusetts, USA

A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN: 978-94-6300-712-2 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-713-9 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-714-6 (e-book)

Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/

All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.

Cover image by Steve Anyiwo

Printed on acid-free paper

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GENDER IN THE VAMPIRE NARRATIVE

“The haunting durability of the vampire in popular culture attests to our enduring fascination with the undead as well as the figure’s rich and dynamic complexity. Amanda Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo have brought together a diverse and far-ranging collection of essays that chase the vampire through history and across literature, film, television, and stage, exploring this complexity and offering insightful and accessible analyses that will be enjoyed by students in popular culture, gender studies, and speculative fiction. Authors pay homage to the classics – from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer – but push consideration of the vampire in new directions as well, from graphic novels to the Vegas stage, interrogating the vampire’s presence and influence across multiple spheres of cultural production, always with a keen eye on gender and sexuality. This collection is not to be missed by those with an interest in feminist cultural studies – or the undead.” – Barbara Gurr, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut, and Author of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyp