Liverpool Unipress
The essays in this collection examine interpretations across genre, form, and discipline, as well as revealing a buoyant field of research in contemporary Gothic and science fiction studies. The collection ranges across narrative media – in the form of literature, film, graphic novels, trading card games – and across genre – in the form of horror, science fiction, Gothic, New Weird and more. Bringing together distinguished contributors, the essays explore questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower, capitalism, with Gothic science fiction texts understood as uniquely inflected for their time and place.
Contents
Part I: Redefining Genres
Chapter 1. “In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness” by Roger Luckhurst Chapter 2: “Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction” by Fred Botting Part II: Biopower& Capital Chapter 3: “‘Death is Irrelevant’: Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire” by Aris Mousoutzanis Chapter 4: “‘A Butcher’s Shop where the Meat Still Moved’: Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning” by Sara Wasson Chapter 5: “Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity” by Laurence Davies Chapter 6: “Infected with Life: Neo-Supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie” by Gwyneth Peaty Chapter 7: “Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap Cycle” by Emily Alder Part III: Gender and Genre Chapter 8: “The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity Beyond The Starry Wisdom” by Mark P. Williams Chapter 9: “Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison’s Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces” by Jerrilyn McGregory Part IV: Strange Cities, Strange Temporalities Chapter 11: “The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions” by Nickianne Moody Chapter 11: “Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” by Laura Hilton
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