Stephenie Meyer's
Twilight
saga has maintained a tight grip on the contemporary cultural imagination. This timely and critical work examines how the
series offers addictively appealing messages about love, romance, sex, beauty and body image, and how these charged themes interact with cultural issues regarding race, class, gender and sexuality. Through a careful analysis of the texts, the fandom and the current socio-historical climate, this work argues that the success of the
series stems chiefly from Meyer's negotiation of cultural mores.