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Blood Will Tell: Vampires as Political Metaphors Before World War I.
by Sara Libby Robinson
ISBN 978-1-934843-61-1
250 pp. cloth
$59.00
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Publication Date: March, 2011

Blood Will Tell explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire-related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism, Sara Libby Robinson demonstrates the ways in which rhetoric tied to blood and vampires permeated political discourse and transcended the disparate cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, forming a cohesive political and cultural metaphor.

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"This fascinating and illuminating book shows clearly how the interest in vampirism which developed in Britain, France, and Germany in the three quarters of a century before the end of the Second World War was linked with the popularisation of a more ‘scientific’ understanding of the human body and the role of blood in it. This development was related both to fears about the advancement of women and to the development of new forms of antisemitism and the book thus makes a major contribution to the crisis of liberal values in the years between 1870 and 1945."
—Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University

"Sara Libby Robinson has written a book of remarkable range and erudition including sources from Europe and America. She shows convincingly that the image of the vampire accompanied a wide variety of modern anxieties about blood. We now know that Count Dracula was only the beginning of a much broader and more interesting story."
—David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History Chair, Department of History University of California, Davis

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