Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the 'other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination. Reading the Vampire examines the vampire in all its various manifestations and cu[...]

Presents a cultural history of subcultures. This book covers a range of subcultural forms and practices and identifies six ways in which subcultures have generally been understood. It argues that subcultural identity is a matter of narrative and narration, which means that its focus is literary as w[...]