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Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010
- Title
- Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 / edited by Sara Wasson and Emily Alder.
- Publication
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR830.S35 G68 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 219 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This collection analyzes a range of supernatural and science fiction works including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games from 1980-2010 and examines their engagement with the era{u2019}s dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and personal and global politics.
- Series Statement
- Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 41
- Uniform Title
- Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 41.
- Subject
- Science fiction, English > History and criticism
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
- Science fiction, English
- Science-Fiction-Literatur
- Schauerroman
- Englisch
- Gothic novel
- Rezeption
- Science-Fiction
- Gothic novel
- Englisch
- Science fiction > historia
- Gotisk litteratur
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Adam Roberts -- Introduction / Sara Wasson and Emily Alder -- In the zone: topologies of genre weirdness / Roger Luckhurst -- Zombie death drive: between gothic and science fiction / Fred Botting -- 'Death is irrelevant': gothic science fiction and the biopolitics of empire / Aris Mousoutzanis -- 'A butcher's shop where the meat still moved': gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning / Sara Wasson -- Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the pleasures of impurity / Laurence Davies -- Infected with life: neo-supernaturalism and the gothic zombie / Gwyneth Peaty -- Ruined skin: gothic genetics and human identity in Stephen Donaldson's Gap cycle / Emily Alder -- The superheated, superdense prose of David Conway: gender and subjectivity beyond The starry wisdom / Mark P. Williams -- Spatialized ontologies: Toni Morrison's science fiction traces in gothic spaces / Jerrilyn McGregory -- The gothic punk milieu in popular narrative fictions / Nickianne Moody -- Gothic science fiction in the steampunk graphic novel: The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Laura Hilton.
- ISBN
- 9781846317071
- 184631707X
- OCLC
- ocn754168748
- 754168748
- SCSB-14512908
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library