Putting words to my thoughts

[frualeydis]

An excellent article about the new vampire books, women and feminism. I have longed to have the energy to write about this, though I also wanted to link it to the romantic era with it's backlash for women (compared to the Enlightenment), it's demonic lovers, obsession with purity and abstinence and the same female submission as you see in these new vampire books. Scary stuff.

Oh, and Edward Cullen is a seriously creepy guy.

Comments

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Well, she does give several other examples, but I'm not a scholar in literature, as she is, so I don't know how much she misses.

/Eva

[jehanearbonne.livejournal.com]

She excludes those examples that don't support her theory though. Like the gender ambiguity of Anne Rice's vampires, the vampire as nothing but a monster in Nancy Collins' Sonja Blue stories, the kindly hedonistic vamp in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's StGermain stories etc. Of course, that's what arts scholars do, but I don't think it's scientific.