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This essay will explore representations of sex, sexuality and morality in Young Adult (YA) vampire fiction, with particular focus on paranormal romance. I will explore the constructions of female identity and sexuality in the best-selling YA vampire series, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, along with P. C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night, Rachel Caine’s Morganville series, and Mia James’s debut vampire novel By Midnight, and consider the ways in which theorizations of both sexuality and the Gothic might inform a reading of teenage female identity in these novels.
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Priest, H. (2013). ‘Hell! Was I Becoming a Vampyre Slut?’: Sex, Sexuality and Morality in Young Adult Vampire Fiction. In: Mutch, D. (eds) The Modern Vampire and Human Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370142_4
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