Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Wasson, Sara, Alder, Emily
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Series:	Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 41.
Subjects:	Science fiction, English > History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English. Science fiction, English. Science-Fiction. Schauerroman. Englisch. Gothic novel. Rezeption. USA. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Adam Roberts
Introduction / Sara Wasson and Emily Alder
In the zone: topologies of genre weirdness / Roger Luckhurst
Zombie death drive: between gothic and science fiction / Fred Botting
'Death is irrelevant': gothic science fiction and the biopolitics of empire / Aris Mousoutzanis
'A butcher's shop where the meat still moved': gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning / Sara Wasson
Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the pleasures of impurity / Laurence Davies
Infected with life: neo-supernaturalism and the gothic zombie / Gwyneth Peaty
Ruined skin: gothic genetics and human identity in Stephen Donaldson's Gap cycle / Emily Alder
The superheated, superdense prose of David Conway: gender and subjectivity beyond The starry wisdom / Mark P. Williams
Spatialized ontologies: Toni Morrison's science fiction traces in gothic spaces / Jerrilyn McGregory
The gothic punk milieu in popular narrative fictions / Nickianne Moody
Gothic science fiction in the steampunk graphic novel: The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Laura Hilton.