Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle
Book
Alder, E. (2020)
Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32652-4
This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and ...
Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2017)
Through Oceans Darkly: Sea Literature and the Nautical Gothic. Gothic Studies, 19(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.7227/gs.0025
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(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2017)
(Re)encountering monsters: animals in early-twentieth-century weird fiction. Textual Practice, 31(6), 1083-1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2017.1358686
Early twentieth century weird tales occupy an important place in the development of genre fictions. Among the innovations they contribute are new forms of monsters, diverging ...
Getting the Message: supporting students’ transition from Higher National to degree level study and the role of mobile technologies.
Journal Article
Fotheringham, J., & Alder, E. (2012)
Getting the Message: supporting students’ transition from Higher National to degree level study and the role of mobile technologies. Electronic Journal of eLearning, 10, 331-341
In this paper, we explore roles that mobile technologies can play in supporting students’ transition to second and third year of university degree study, specifically along ar...
Introduction: Literature, science, and the natural world in the long Nineteenth Century.
Journal Article
Alder, E., & McKechnie, C. (2012)
Introduction: Literature, science, and the natural world in the long Nineteenth Century. Journal of Literature and Science, 5(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.12929/jls.05.2.01
Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2011)
Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0008
This chapter offers a literary criticism of Stephen Donaldson's novel Gap. It discusses that transfiguration of the body, through the study of molecular biology and genetic en...
Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010.
Book Chapter
Alder, E., & Wasson, S. (2011)
Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. In Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0001
This Introduction introduces Gothic science fiction as a genre and discusses the text as a project to examine Gothic science fiction historically as well as to distinguish its...
"A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning.
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2011)
"A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010, 73-86. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0005
This timely book explores what might be termed Gothic science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictor...
Gothic Science Fiction 1980 - 2010
Book
Wasson, S., & Alder, E. (2010)
Gothic Science Fiction 1980 - 2010. Liverpool University Press
William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siècle
Thesis
Alder, E. William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siècle. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3597
William Hope Hodgson has generally been understood as the author of several atmospheric sea-horror stories and two powerful but flawed horror science fiction novels. There has...