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Contagion and the Vampire

Name: Contagion and the Vampire
Brand: Springer, Berlin
SKU: 9783031392016
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The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century

Autor: Simon Bacon

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Editura: Springer, Berlin

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This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and di...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Simon Bacon

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2023

Pagini

112

EAN

9783031392016

Enbook ID

43703820

Editura

Springer, Berlin

Greutate

290

Dimensiuni

148 x 210

Descriere completă

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 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.