Edinburgh Napier University

Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction

Journal Article

Wasson, S. (2015)

Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction. Gothic Studies, 17, 104-123. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.17.1.8

In organ transfer, tissue moves through a web of language. Metaphors reclassify the tissue to enable its redeployment, framing the process for practitioners and public. The pr...

Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control.

Book

Wasson, S. (2014)

Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics, 99-112. Routledge

The Gothic has long been interested in failed communities, the snapping or violating of ties between kin or neighbours. As the Gothic mutates into new forms today, it is incre...

Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present.

Book

Wasson, S. (2013)

Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. In G. Byron, & D. Townshend (Eds.), The Gothic World, 132-142. Routledge

Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman.

Presentation / Conference

Wasson, S. (2011, August)

Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011., University of Heidelberg, Germany

The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once eve...

Gothic Science Fiction 1980 - 2010

Book

Wasson, S., & Alder, E. (2010)

Gothic Science Fiction 1980 - 2010. Liverpool University Press

Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship

Journal Article

Wasson, S. (2010)

Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 7, 55-81

Although Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Olalla’ does not use the word ‘vampire’ at any point, it contains a cluster of motifs that have led critics to identify it as a ...

“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London.

Presentation / Conference

Wasson, S. (2010, April)

“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London. Paper presented at Urban Gothic: Haunted Cities, Spectral Traces Conference, Liverpool John Moores University

The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body.

Presentation / Conference

Wasson, S., & Artt, S. (2010, April)

The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. Paper presented at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture., University of Hertfordshire

Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in gothic science fiction.

Presentation / Conference

Wasson, S. (2009, July)

Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in gothic science fiction. Paper presented at International Gothic Association Biannual Conference, Lancaster University

Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship.

Journal Article

Wasson, S. (2004)

Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation. 45, 130-144. ISSN 0014-5483

This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of...

William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siecle

2003 - 2009

Dr Emily Alder | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Sara Wasson