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| Literary critic Alan Jacobs discusses the commercial success of Anne Rice's vampire novels. Vampires are appealing to readers, Jacobs explains, because they are completely unfettered by moral, financial, or physical constraints. They are immortal, rich, strong, and seductive. Because they dominate and control others, they fulfill human fantasies of freedom and power. Jacobs suggests that traditional vampire stories are a kind of political allegory: vampires, like aristocrats, are predatory parasites with too much time on their hands. Unlike these earlier accounts, which incite terror and disgust, Anne Rice uncritically celebrates the power, freedom, and immortality of the vampire life, according to Jacobs. |
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Alan Jacobs has contributed to multiple editions of the Journal; click here for his record.
 Alan Jacobs has also been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Conversations "Decadent Immortals: Alan Jacobs on Anne Rice" and "The Public Poetry of W. H. Auden." Short descriptions of these Conversations are listed here. In addition, MARS HILL AUDIO has recorded Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age. A description of the book is available here. A chapter about C. S. Lewis from Jacobs's A Visit to Vanity Fair is published on the MARS HILL AUDIO Anthology, The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis. For more information about it, click here. |
Authors
Literature--Fiction
Rice, Anne
Vampires
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