Description: 1. Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan] Critics: Genre and Reception Guilty Pleasures: Twilight, snark and ironic fandom Francesca Haig 'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of the Twilight Saga Mark Jankovich The Twilight Saga: Genre and Reception Nia Edwards-Behi 2. Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the Myth Why Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn't: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental Tradition Judith Kohlenberger The Lore of the Wild Dr Caroline Ruddell Northwest Small Town Gothic: Location and Space in the Twilight Films Dr Ian Conrich 3. Romancing the Tomb: Gender and Sexuality My distaste for Forks': Twilight, oral gratification and self-denial Ruth O'Donnell Of Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in Twilight Marion Rana 'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in Twilight Mark Adams 4. The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial Whiteness The Cullens: The Mimicry of the Post-Colonial Vampire Simon Bacon Racial Whiteness and Twilight Ewan Kirkland 5. Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Re-writing the Text Twilight's Queer Communities: Family and Fandom R. Justin Hunt, : Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight Fanfic Brigid Cherry Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning Bethan Jones Index

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