For two centuries the vampire has been the most anatomically detailed monster in fiction - and almost no one has taken its body seriously. This book does.
Blood and Bone is a speculative physiology of the undead: a straight-faced dissection of the great vampires of literature and film, from Polidori's moonlit Lord Ruthven and Le Fanu's Carmilla to Stoker's reflectionless Count, the plague-rat frame of Nosferatu's Orlok, Anne Rice's marble-skinned Lestat, and the crystalline Edward Cullen. Treating each creature as a specimen on the table, it asks how such a body could actually work - how it feeds, how it heals, why sunlight annihilates one vampire and merely inconveniences another - and reconstructs, organ by organ, the impossible biology that fiction never troubled to explain.
Across chapters on circulation without a heartbeat, venom and viral transformation, corpse-skin and crystalline flesh, it assembles a comparative natural history of creatures that were never alive: a full taxonomy of the undead, complete with charts, tables, and a programme of original anatomical plates in the tradition of Vesalius and Gray.
Affectionate, rigorous, and gleefully macabre, Blood and Bone is popular science for monsters - a field guide to the anatomy of the imagination, for readers of gothic fiction, horror cinema, pop-culture criticism, and speculative biology alike.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For two centuries the vampire has been the most anatomically detailed monster in fiction - and almost no one has taken its body seriously. This book does.Blood and Bone is a speculative physiology of the undead: a straight-faced dissection of the great vampires of literature and film, from Polidori's moonlit Lord Ruthven and Le Fanu's Carmilla to Stoker's reflectionless Count, the plague-rat frame of Nosferatu's Orlok, Anne Rice's marble-skinned Lestat, and the crystalline Edward Cullen. Treating each creature as a specimen on the table, it asks how such a body could actually work - how it feeds, how it heals, why sunlight annihilates one vampire and merely inconveniences another - and reconstructs, organ by organ, the impossible biology that fiction never troubled to explain.Across chapters on circulation without a heartbeat, venom and viral transformation, corpse-skin and crystalline flesh, it assembles a comparative natural history of creatures that were never alive: a full taxonomy of the undead, complete with charts, tables, and a programme of original anatomical plates in the tradition of Vesalius and Gray.Affectionate, rigorous, and gleefully macabre, Blood and Bone is popular science for monsters - a field guide to the anatomy of the imagination, for readers of gothic fiction, horror cinema, pop-culture criticism, and speculative biology alike. A straight-faced speculative anatomy of the vampire fifteen literary and cinematic undead dissected organ by organ, with original anatomical plates. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781918177343
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For two centuries the vampire has been the most anatomically detailed monster in fiction - and almost no one has taken its body seriously. This book does.Blood and Bone is a speculative physiology of the undead: a straight-faced dissection of the great vampires of literature and film, from Polidori's moonlit Lord Ruthven and Le Fanu's Carmilla to Stoker's reflectionless Count, the plague-rat frame of Nosferatu's Orlok, Anne Rice's marble-skinned Lestat, and the crystalline Edward Cullen. Treating each creature as a specimen on the table, it asks how such a body could actually work - how it feeds, how it heals, why sunlight annihilates one vampire and merely inconveniences another - and reconstructs, organ by organ, the impossible biology that fiction never troubled to explain.Across chapters on circulation without a heartbeat, venom and viral transformation, corpse-skin and crystalline flesh, it assembles a comparative natural history of creatures that were never alive: a full taxonomy of the undead, complete with charts, tables, and a programme of original anatomical plates in the tradition of Vesalius and Gray.Affectionate, rigorous, and gleefully macabre, Blood and Bone is popular science for monsters - a field guide to the anatomy of the imagination, for readers of gothic fiction, horror cinema, pop-culture criticism, and speculative biology alike. A straight-faced speculative anatomy of the vampire fifteen literary and cinematic undead dissected organ by organ, with original anatomical plates. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781918177343
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