The first look at the history behind Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight series, timed to release with the third movie, Eclipse. The characters of the Twilight Saga carry a rich history that shapes their identities and actions over the course of the series. Edward, for instance, may look lik...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons c2010
Schlagworte:	Meyer, Stephenie / 1973- / Twilight saga series Meyer, Stephenie > 1973- > Twilight saga series Young adult fiction, American / History and criticism Geschichte > Motiv
Zusammenfassung:	The first look at the history behind Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight series, timed to release with the third movie, Eclipse. The characters of the Twilight Saga carry a rich history that shapes their identities and actions over the course of the series. Edward, for instance, may look like a seventeen-year-old teen heartthrob, but was actually born in 1901 and died during the Spanish Influenza of 1918. His adopted sister, Alice, was imprisoned in an insane asylum in 1920 and treated so badly there that even becoming a vampire was a welcome escape
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index "An old-fashioned gentleman"? Edward's imaginary history / Kate Cochran -- Biting Bella : treaty negotiation, Quileute history, and why "Team Jacob" is doomed to lose / Judith Leggatt and Kristin Burnett -- CinderBella : Twilight, fairy tales, and the twenty first-century American dream / Sara Buttsworth -- Courting Edward Cullen : courtship rituals and marital expectations in Edward's youth / Catherine Coker -- Jasper Hale, the oldest living Confederate veteran / Elizabeth Baird Hardy -- Smoky Mountain twilight : the Appalchian roots of Emmett McCarty Cullen and his family / Elizabeth Baird Hary -- Better turned than "Cured"? Alice and the asylum / Grace Loiacono and Laura Loiacono -- Carlisle Cullen and the witch hunts of Puritan London / Janice Liedl -- A subtle and dangerous gift : Jasper Hale and the specter of the American Civil War / Andrea Robertson Cremer -- Like other American families, only not : the Cullens and the "Ideal" family in American history / Kyra Glass von der Osten -- The sort of people who hired Michelangelo as their decorator : the Volturi as Renassance rulers / Birgit Wiedl -- "Where do the Cullens fit in?" : vampires in European folklore, science and fiction / Eveline Brugger -- Getting younger every decade : being a teen vampire during the twentieth century / Kat Burkhart
Beschreibung:	xiv, 274 p. 23 cm