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. ...
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...
"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...
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...
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
Urban gothic of the Second World War: dark London.
Book
Wasson, S. (2009)
Urban gothic of the Second World War: dark London. Palgrave Macmillan
This book examines 'home front' literature of the Second World War, arguing that Gothic tropes and forms mark moments of fracture in the national mythologies of wartime home, ...