The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2012)
The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction. Journal of Popular Culture, 45(1), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00919.x
Anne Rice's twelve vampire “autobiographies” continue to be hugely influential for vampire fiction and other artifacts of popular culture. This article explores two tropes wh...
Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies.
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2015)
Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies. Gothic Studies, 17(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.17.1.1
Gothic studies has long been concerned with representations of the fragility of human flesh in the grip of illness, as well as bodies confined by medical and legal discourse. ...
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...
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
Ghostly authorities and vampire fangs: myths of Englishness revised in Anna Kavan’s fiction.
Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S. (2010, July)
Ghostly authorities and vampire fangs: myths of Englishness revised in Anna Kavan’s fiction. Paper presented at Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations Conference, Aberystwith University
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...
"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...
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 ...
Using reading diaries in independent learning.
Book
Wasson, S. (2014)
Using reading diaries in independent learning. In L. Thomson (Ed.), Compedium of effective practice in directed independent learning, 130-132. QAA HIgher Education Academy
Reading diaries (and optional ‘reading question’ diary prompts) are used to encourage year three English, and English and Film BA (Hons), students to develop their self-direct...