The Twilight of Vampires: Byronic Heroes and the Evolution of Vampire Fiction in The Vampire Diaries and Twilight
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Contemporary teenage vampire fiction has helped revitalize the genre by attracting a new generation of readers. In so doing, some changes have been introduced so as to make the figure of the vampire more appealing to a largely female teenage readership. Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the publication of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, this article analyzes how the Twilight series and the earlier The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith update and modernize the Byronic hero on which vampires are largely modeled. It also explores the possible effects of this new characterization on readers’ minds and the alarm it has created.
Source: Verbeia.
Author: M. Carmen Gómez Galisteo
Institution: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3158733319