GISELLE LIZA ANATOL is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA, and the editor of two previous books, Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays (Praeger 2003) and Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays (Praeger 2009). She has published extensively on representations of motherhood in contemporary Caribbean literature, and representations of race and ethnicity in contemporary children's literature. She has blogged about her research into the Twilight phenomenon for the University of Stirling's web forum, 'The Gothic Imagination.'

A jargon-free collections of essays for fans and scholars alike on the cultural and 'literary' phenomenon of the Twilight series

Introduction; G.L.Anatol PART I: LITERARY CONTEXTS, PAST AND PRESENT The Wolf in the Woods: Representations of 'Little Red Riding Hood' in Twilight ; M.Kramar Textual Vampirism in the Twilight Saga: Drawing Feminist Life from Jane Eyre and Teen Fantasy Fiction; K.Deffenbacher & M.Zagoria-Moffet Serial Experiments in Popular Culture: The Resignification of Gothic Symbology in Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and the Twilight Series; C.Veldman-Genz Twilight , Translated; [...] Gleed Variations, Subversions and Endless Love: Fan Fiction and the Twilight Saga; M.Lindgren Leavenworth True Blood Waits: The Romance of Law and Literature; M.Wallis PART II: GENDER AND SEXUALITY Wake Up, Bella! A Personal Essay on Twilight, Mormonism, Feminism, and Happiness; [...] 'When you kiss me, I want to die': Arrested Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight Series; [...] 'One is not born a vampire, but becomes one': Motherhood, Masochism, and Male Mothering in Twilight ; M.Whitton Of Monsters and Men: Toxic Masculinity and the 21st-Century Vampire in the Twilight Saga; T.Bealer The Other Edward: Twilight's Queer Construction of the Vampire as Idealized Teenage Boyfriend; J.Somers & A.[...] PART III: CLASS, RACE, AND GREEN SPACE 'Embraced' by Consumption: Twilight and the Modern Construction of Gender; M.Goebel Fashion Sucks...Blood? Clothes and Covens in Twilight and Hollywood Culture; [...] Trailing in Jonathan Harker's Shadow: Bella as Modern-Day Ethnographer in Meyer's Twilight Novels; [...] Kim & G.L.Anatol The Great American Love Affair: Indians in the Twilight Saga; [...] Green is the New Black: Ecophobia and the Gothic Landscape in the Twilight Series; T.K.Parmiter