| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 41 |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 41.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Adam Roberts -- 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 |
| Summary |
These essays explore questions of genre, medical science gender, biopower and capitalism, demonstrating the ways in which Gothic science fiction texts stage contemporary concerns around power, anxiety, resistance and capital |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
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Science fiction, English
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wasson, Sara
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Alder, Emily
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| ISBN |
1846319781 |
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9781846319785 |
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