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
The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body.
Book
Artt, S., & Wasson, S. (2013)
The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. In S. George, & B. Hughes (Eds.), Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the PresentManchester University Press
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...
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 ...