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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Twilightâs Timeline
Introduction
Notes
PART ONE - Your Basic Human-Vampire-Werewolf /Shape-shifter Triangle
Chapter 1 - âAn Old-Fashioned Gentlemanâ?
Imaginary History: How Literature and History Play Together
The Lost Generation: Edwardâs Historical Moment
The Victorian Gentleman: A Secular Saint
The Byronic Hero: Darcy, Rochester, and Heathcliff
Imagining Edwardâs History through Literature
Chapter 2 - Biting Bella
Treaties and the Shaping of Indigenous Identity
Rogue Entities and the Challenge of the Treaties
Rialto Beach and the Erotic Triangle: Contemporary Treaty Conflicts
Chapter 3 - CinderBella
Preface
The Dreams of Lambs and Lions
Creatures of the Night: Defenders of the Dream
CinderBella and Her Sisters
Conclusion: What Price the Glass Slipper?
Chapter 4 - Courting Edward Cullen
The Influence of Romance
The Place of Twentieth-Century Courtship
Gendered Expectations and Conflicted Desires
Other Lives in Other Universes
Conclusion: âShe Had Her Hat On . . .â
PART TWO - Some Family History
Chapter 5 - Jasper Hale, the Oldest Living Confederate Veteran
Because the Girls Are Watching
Tenting Tonight
The Rattle of Musketry
Up through the Ranks
The Lingering Shadow
Chapter 6 - Smoky Mountain Twilight
The Prisoning Hills
The Ring of the Ax, the Whistle of the Train
A âRealâ Mountain Man?
Keeping Themselves to Themselves
Themâs Fightinâ Words
Taking a Joke
Come In and Sit a Spell
A Bear of Very Little Brain
Gloom, Despair, and Agony
Thicker Than Water
The Way Weâve Always Done Things
Chapter 7 - Better Turned Than âCuredâ?
Madhouses and Asylums
Make a Commitment
Crowd Control and Early Therapies
Shock Therapies
Conclusion: Better Turned Than âCuredâ?
Chapter 8 - Carlisle Cullen and the Witch Hunts of Puritan London
âThe London of My Youthâ
âJust before Cromwellâs Ruleâ
âHis Father Was an Intolerant Manâ
âWhen Monsters Were Not Just Myths and Legendsâ
âCarlisle Was a Disappointment; He Was Not Quick to Accuseâ
The Soul of the Family
Like Father, Like Son
Chapter 9 - A Subtle and Dangerous Gift
A Time of Making Men
The Bloody Civil War: A Family Affair
Desertion
The Best and Worst We Could Be
Chapter 10 - Like Other American Families, Only Not
The Failure of Twilightâs Traditional Family
Love Is the Tie That Binds
âBarrenâ Wives and the Kin We Choose: Families That Arenât Biological
Twilight and the Nonnuclear Family
What Is a âTraditionalâ Family, Anyway?
PART THREE - A World of Vampires
Chapter 11 - The Sort of People Who Hired Michelangelo as Their Decorator
Near-Royalty, Control, and Power Gained through Patronage
People You Wouldnât Want to Cross
âSo Medieval!â: Renaissance Art, the Artists, and the People Who Paid Them
Chapter 12 - âWhere Do the Cullens Fit In?â
Demonic Creatures with a Taste for Blood and Corpses That Wonât Stay Put
Vampire Hunters and Vampire Science during the âCentury of Lightâ
Sexing Up a Myth: From European Vampire Literature to Pop Culture Vamps
So, Where Do the Cullens Fit In?
So Where Does That Leave Us?
Chapter 13 - Getting Younger Every Decade
What Is a Teenager?
What the Kids Today Are Listening To
Dracula and the Drive in Movie
Television
Automobiles
Going Steady, Dating, and Teen Marriage
Eager Human Soldiers or Draft-Dodging Vampires?
What Is an Adult, After All?
Bella: Born in the Wrong Century?
Leaving the Decades Behind, or When in Rome . . .
The Forks High School Faculty
Index
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