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Contagion and the vampirethe vampiric body as locus of disease and global epidemics in 21st century /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contagion and the vampireby Simon Bacon.
Reminder of title:	the vampiric body as locus of disease and global epidemics in 21st century /
Author:	Bacon, Simon.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	vii, 104 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Vampires in mass media.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39202-3
ISBN:	9783031392023$q(electronic bk.)

Contagion and the vampirethe vampiric body as locus of disease and global epidemics in 21st century /
Bacon, Simon.

Contagion and the vampirethe vampiric body as locus of disease and global epidemics in 21st century /[electronic resource] :by Simon Bacon. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - vii, 104 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Introduction -- Bodies -- Skin -- Blood -- Breath.

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. Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including Becoming Vampire (2017), Eco-vampires (2019), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2 volumes, 2023), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming)

ISBN: 9783031392023$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-39202-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

643366
Vampires in mass media.

LC Class. No.: P96.V35 / B33 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93375

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