Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 14 - Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
from Part III - Applications
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
Although the Victorianist vampire tends to serve as our reference point for vampiric feeding, this essay provides another angle in our understanding of blood drinking in the context of food and literature. I examine blood drinking as a form of strange eating, to argue that vampiric feeding, or the impulse to drink blood, manifests from the intersection of medicine, myth, and ideas of human difference to produce a diet that pushes on the boundaries of what constitutes humanity in the literary imagination. This essay highlights the more obscure—and thus more urgent—alternative or marginalized histories and afterlives of vampiric feeding, before and beyond the Victorian vampire: blood lust as infant nourishment, medicinal ingestion, or eating disorder with racial ramifications, from ancient epileptic blood-drinking and early modern menstrual blood to the cross-pollination of blood drinking, disordered eating, and community building in the twenty-first century.
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