Contagion and the Vampire

The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century

By: Simon Bacon

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Hardcover | 11 August 2023

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This book examines how vampire has always been connected to the ideas of infection, pollution and disease and even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrific results 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 the 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 the life, it is the body of the vampire that is death. This timely study then looks at how and why the vampire continues to fulfill 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.

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