Gender and the Dracula : what's at stake? -- Vampire transformations : gothic melodrama, sympathy and the self -- Fans re-reading the vampire : issues of gender and the pleasures of pathos -- The predicament of the vampire and the slayer : gothic melodrama in modern America -- Vampire fandom : rebels without a cause? : theorising fandom in the field of cultural production -- Vampire fandom in the field of cultural production : a vampire fan club case study -- Donning fangs : gender, the vampire and dressing the self -- Rewriting the vampire : gender, sexuality and fan fiction -- Conclusion, the vampire and the self : the dilemmas of the dead and the realm of the possible.
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