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- Title
A 'Ghastly Operation': Transfusing Blood, Science and the Supernatural in Vampire Texts.
- Authors
Stephanou, Aspasia
- Abstract
This article examines blood transfusion in vampire texts and its connections to vampirism in order to establish the different ways the body and identity of the vampire, and its victim, are constituted and affected by the dangerous circulation of blood. Vampire texts manifest anxieties about identity that arise through the symbolic value of blood, but also through its increasing medicalisation. Nineteenth-century vampire texts focus on blood's symbolisms while twentieth-century texts define blood as a neutral medium to be analysed and explained. In the late twentieth century, however, blood becomes the locus of biomedical interventions which affirm respect for tradition, selfish individualism and responsibility.
- Subjects
VAMPIRES in literature; VAMPIRE films; BLOOD transfusion; SYMBOLISM of blood; INDIVIDUALISM; RESPONSIBILITY
- Publication
Gothic Studies, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
1362-7937
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/GS.15.2.4