792
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Suicide, depression and mental disorder in vampire fiction: when the world starts crumbling

ORCID Icon

ReferencesReferences

  • Adolescent Mental Health. 2019. “World Health Organization”, October 23. Accessed 9 July 2020. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-mental-health
  • Ashcraft, D. M. 2013. Deconstructing Twilight: Psychological and Feminist Perspectives on the Series. New York, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang.
  • Aronofsky, Darren, dir 2011.Black Swan. [Beverly Hills, CA]: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
  • Barry, R. L. 2012. [1994]. Breaking the Thread of Life: On Rational Suicide. New Brunswick, London: Transaction Publishers.
  • Bellin, J. D. 2005. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Bowman, C. A., ed. 2000. Using Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers Cope with Health Issues. Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press.
  • Bradshaw, M., and E. Joshua. 2016. “Introduction.” In Disabling Romanticism, edited by M. Bradshaw, 1–28, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Colt, G. H. 2006 [1991]. November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Scribner.
  • Darragh, J. J. 2016. “Beyond Cruel. Female Heroines and Third-Wave Feminism in the Vampire Academy Series.” In Girls’ Series Fiction and American Popular Culture, edited by L. D’Amico, 251–267, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Deffenbacher, K. 2016. “Hybrid Heroines and the Naturalization of Women’s Violence in Urban Fantasy Fiction.” In Gender in the Vampire Narrative, edited by A. Hobson and U. M. Anyiwo, 29–44. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: SensePublishers.
  • DeRosa, G. K. 2019. Demons. Darkblood Academy Series. Palm Beach, Florida: Mystic Rose Press. Kindle edition.
  • Donaldson, E.J. 2012. “The Corpus of the Madwoman: Toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Embodiment and Mental Illness.” In The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability, edited by D. Bolt, J. Miele Rodas and E.J. Donaldson, 11–31, Columbus: Ohio University Press
  • Faubert, M., and N. Reynolds. 2015. “Introduction: Romanticism and Suicide.” Literature Compass 12/12: 641–65.
  • Fong, R. D. 2016. “A Feminist Bloodletting. Reading Suicide in Florence Marryat and Angela Carter.” In Gender in the Vampire Narrative, edited by A. Hobson and U. M. Anyiwo, 109–123. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: SensePublishers.
  • Frost, J. 2007. Halfway to the Grave. A Night Huntress Novel. New York, NY: Avon Books. Frost, J. 2007–present. A Night Huntress Series. New York, NY: Avon Books.
  • Harris, C. 2001–2013.The Southern Vampire Mysteries. New York: Ace Books.
  • “Home.” Vampire Diaries season 5 episode 22, directed by Ch. Grismer, written by C. Dries and B. Young. May 15, 2014.
  • “I Was Feeling Epic.” Vampire Diaries season 8 episode 16, directed by J. Plec, written by J. Plec and K. Williamson. March 10, 2017.
  • Kapurch, K. 2016. Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre,Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kokkola, L. 2011. “Sparkling Vampires: Valorizing Self-harming Behavior in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature 49 (3): 33–46. doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2011.0054.
  • Mead, R. 2007–2010. Vampire Academy Series. New York: Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • Mead, R. 2011–2015. Bloodlines Series. New York: Penguin Books. Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • Mead, R. 2016. “From the Journal of Vasilisa Dragomir [FJVD].” In Vampire Academy. 10th Anniversary, 392–423. Razorbill: Kindle edition.
  • Mead, R. 2007. Vampire Academy [VA]. New York: Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • “When the Saints Go Marching In.” The Originals, The CW 2013–2018, season 5 episode 13, directed by L. Anderson, written by J. Plec, J. Lieber. August 1, 2018.
  • Mead, R. 2008. Shadow Kiss [SK]. New York: Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • Mead, R. 2009. Blood Promise [BP]. New York: Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • Mead, R. 2013. The Fiery Heart [FH]. Penguin Books. Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • Mead, R. 2015. The Ruby Circle[RC]. Penguin Books. Razorbill. Kindle edition.
  • Meyer, S. 2007a [2005]. Twilight. Twilight Series. London: Atom.
  • Meyer, S. 2007b [2006]. New Moon. Twilight Series. London: Atom.
  • Packer, S. 2017. “Introduction.” In Mental Illness in Popular Culture, edited by S. Packer. Santa Barbara, ix–xxiv. California, Denver, Colorado: Praeger.
  • Płonowska Ziarek, E. 2012. Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Reynolds, K. 2007. Radical Children’s Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Richmond, K. J. 2019. Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature: Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
  • Schiesari, J. 1992. The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
  • Schubart, R. 2018. Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions and Contemporary Horror. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • “Thank You.” True Blood, BO 2008–2014, season 7 episode 10, directed by S. Winant, written by B. Buckner. August 24, 2014.
  • Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, A. 2021. Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Valerius, K. 2018. “‘Is the Young Lady Mad?’: Psychiatric Disability in Louisa May Alcottt’s Fiction.” In Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, edited by E. J. Donaldson, 91–108. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Woodman, R. G., and J. Faflak. 2005. Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.