Abstract
Interview with the Vampire,published in 1976,is one of the most important representative works of Anne Rice and considered as the Bible by vampires fans and researchers.This thesis aims at analyzing this novel in terms of the theory of feminism.This thesis is to demonstrate that the novel Interview with Vampire is not only the heritage of the early gothic literature as most critics have concluded,but also a Neo-feminism text.Introducing the characteristics of feminism,this thesis is to discuss the feminine world in Anne Rice's vampire fiction.This thesis is divided into five parts.The first part deals with feminine tradition of American literature and Anne Rice's feminine world,represents the early feminine heritage in Rice's novel and introduces the origin and characters of feminism to provide a theoretical framework based on which the thesis develops.The second part explores Interview with the Vampire's connection with Elaine's three stages of women's writing as an allegorical journey from one phase to the next.The third part is devoted to analyzing the multiplicity of vampiric desire and some of the consequences of that multiplicity.The fourth part explores the potential motherhood in this novel.Part five discusses the vampires' role as metaphors in modern society,expressing important contemporary social issues in Western culture.The last part gives a brief summary and conclusion of the thesis and raises questions of the ambiguous ending of the novel for further research.
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