Introduction; Into the Light of Day: The Vampire Legend & its Introduction to Western Culture; The Life of All Flesh: Religious Discourse, Anti-Judaism, & Anti-Clericalism; Bred in the Bone: Science, Blood, & Racial Identity; The Life Blood of Commerce: Vampires & Economic Discourse; Terrorists With Teeth: Vampires & Political Counter-Cultures; Paying the Blood Tax: National Identity, Blood, & Vampires; Seductress & Murderess: Vampires & Gender Politics; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Sara Libby Robinson received her Ph.D. in Comparative History from Brandeis University. Her other publications include "Novel Anti-Semitisms: Vampiric Reflections of the Jew in Britain, 1875-1914," which appeared in Jewish Studies in Violence: A Collection of Essays (University Press of America, 2006).
“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*
“Blood Will Tell is short and concise, yet its coverage is
impressive. . . . Robinson draws attention to many points of
convergence between anti-Semitic stereotypes and vampire imagery,
reinforcing her argument with some 30 political cartoons from
Punch, Puck, Harper’s Weekly, Kladderadatsch, and less familiar
publications like the Justice Journal or The Judge—a feature that
considerably enhances the value of her book. . . . Robinson often
cites neglected or overlooked texts including Herman Strack’s The
Jew and Human Sacrifice: An Historical and Sociological Inquiry
(1898), and forgotten novels like Coulson Kernahan’s Captain
Shannon (1896) or Guy de Charnacé’s Le Baron Vampire (1885). These
unusual additions are most welcome and leave the reader wanting to
know more.”
*Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 12, issue 3 (December
2013)*
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