Table of Contents

Acknowledgments: For Those Who Turned Us ix

Twilight's Timeline xi

Introduction: Frozen in Time Nancy R. Reagin 1

Part 1 Your Basic Human-Vampire-Werewolf/Shape-shifter Triangle: Bella, Edward, and Jacob

1 "An Old-Fashioned Gentleman"? Edward's Imaginary History Kate Cochran 7

2 Biting Bella: Treaty Negotiation, Quileute History, and Why "Team Jacob" Is Doomed to Lose Judith Leggatt Kristin Burnett 26

3 CinderBella: Twilight, Fairy Tales, and the Twenty-First-Century American Dream Sara Buttsworth 47

4 Courting Edward Cullen: Courtship Rituals and Marital Expectations in Edward's Youth Catherine Coker 70

Part 2 Some Family History: The Cullen Coven

5 Jasper Hale, the Oldest Living Confederate Veteran Elizabeth Baird Hardy 89

6 Smoky Mountain Twilight: The Appalachian Roots of Emmett McCarty Cullen and His Family Elizabeth Baird Hardy 106

7 Better Turned Than "Cured"? Alice and the Asylum Grace Loiacono Laura Loiacono 127

8 Carlisle Cullen and the Witch Hunts of Puritan London Janice Liedl 145

9 A Subtle and Dangerous Gift: Jasper Hale and the Specter of the American Civil War Andrea Robertson Cremer 163

10 Like Other American Families, Only Not: The Cullens and the "Ideal" Family in American History Kyra Glass von der Osten 182

Part 3 A World of Vampires: The Volturi and Beyond

11 The Sort of People Who Hired Michelangelo as Their Decorator: The Volturi as Renaissance Rulers Birgit Wiedl 207

12 "Where Do the Cullens Fit In?": Vampires in European Folklore, Science, and Fiction Eveline Brugger 227

13 Getting Younger Every Decade: Being a Teen Vampire during the Twentieth Century Kat Burkhart 245

The Forks High School Faculty 263

Index: Alice Foresaw All of This 267