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The extreme beauty of the Cullen family is the touchstone against which Bella measures her own attractiveness: and finds herself wanting. Her human state is abhorrent to her because of the inevitable aging process. New Moon begins with Bella’s dream of her older self, ‘ancient, creased, and withered’, standing next to Edward who is described as ‘excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen’ (Meyer, 2007b, p. 5). The scene situates Bella firmly within Naomi Klein’s beauty myth where the Bethan Jones 43 ‘violent backlash against feminism .

So why do apparently sane, rational and intelligent academics spend their time earnestly discussing and debating the minutiae of things which do not exist? ‘Reader, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but blood-drinking, form-shifting, bat-flying, kill-with-a-stake-in-the-heart, walkingundead vampires aren’t real. ’ (Simmons, 2010, p. ) 18 Keith Scottt 19 While vampires may not have a concrete existence, they embody a number of highly important and deeply resonant issues which go to the heart of what we mean by ‘humanity’.

Cf. Reynolds 2011, for an excellent analysis of what he terms ‘retromania’. It would be useful to consider how his observations about post-punk and ‘mash-ups’ in music can be neatly mapped onto other aspects of culture. 4. That honour, if honour it is, probably goes to Paul Féval, whose 1875 novel La Ville Vampire, chronicles the nosferatu-slaying exploits of Ann Radcliffe nearly 150 years before the publication of novels such as Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire-Hunter (2010).

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