Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century

Bacon, Simon

Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in 21st Century
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-12
  • 售價: $2,010
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,910
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 104
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031392043
  • ISBN-13: 9783031392047

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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 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.


Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including Becoming Vampire (2017), Eco-vampires (2019), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2 volumes, 2023), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming).

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了吸血鬼如何始終與感染、污染和疾病的概念相連結——尤其在21世紀，吸血鬼表現出看不見且無法阻止的疾病所帶來的恐懼，以及伴隨病毒爆發和更大流行病的預兆與焦慮。在這裡，吸血鬼將傳染病及其相關的焦慮具象化，圍繞著對疾病的感知原因和傳播的擔憂，吸血鬼可以呈現出多種形式，從動物到瘟疫般的微粒、潛伏的陰影，甚至是惡性的氣候系統。如果血液是生命，那麼吸血鬼的身體就是死亡。這項及時的研究探討了吸血鬼如何以及為何持續履行這一功能，並提出21世紀真正的零號病人不再是來自東方的危險古老外來者，而是西方文化本身這個不死的怪物。

西蒙·貝肯（Simon Bacon）是一位駐波蘭波茲南的獨立學者。他撰寫和編輯了25本以上的書籍，包括《成為吸血鬼》（Becoming Vampire，2017年）、《生態吸血鬼》（Eco-vampires，2019年）、《21世紀的諾斯費拉圖》（Nosferatu in the 21st Century，2023年）、《螢幕上的1000個吸血鬼》（1000 Vampires on Screen，兩卷本，2023年）以及即將出版的《吸血鬼的帕爾格雷夫手冊》（The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire）。

作者簡介

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including Becoming Vampire (2017), Eco-vampires (2019), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2 volumes, 2023), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming).


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

西蒙·貝肯是一位獨立學者，常駐於波蘭的波茲南。他撰寫和編輯了超過25本書籍，包括《成為吸血鬼》（2017年）、《生態吸血鬼》（2019年）、《21世紀的諾斯費拉圖》（2023年）、《螢幕上的1000個吸血鬼》（兩卷本，2023年）以及《帕爾格雷夫吸血鬼手冊》（即將出版）。

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