Posthuman Gothic
Distributed for University of Wales Press
272 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2017
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Post/human/Gothic
Anya Heise-Von der Lippe
Part I: Organic
1 Zombie Apocalypse and the Conundrum of Posthumanity in David Wong’s Novels
Micheal Sean Bolton
2 Of Crakers and Men: Imagining the Future and Rethinking the Past in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Antonie Peroikou
3 Of Posthuman Vampires: Science, Blood and Becoming-With
Lars Schmeink
Part II: Undead
4 ‘Lovie- is the vampire so bad?’: Posthuman Rhetoric in Richard Matheson’s I am Legend
Chris Koenig-Woodyard
5 Coexistence and Hospitality: The Gothic Utopian Vision of True Blood
Erica McCrystal
6 Forging Posthuman Identities in Dominic Mitchell’s In the Flesh
Maria Alberto
7 More than Human: Reading the Doppelgänger and Female Monstrosity in Television Vampires
Maria Marino-Faza
Part III: Evolving
8 There’s Something in There: The Posthuman Gothic Mind/Body Divide in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake
Amalya Ashman and Amy Taylor
9 Still Alive: Understanding Femininity in Valve’s Portal Games
Dawn Stobbart
10 Patchwork Girls: Reflections of Lost Female Identity in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours
Donna Mitchell
Part IV: Reimagined
11 Being Virtual: The True (Posthu)man Show
Dennis Yeo
12 The Posthuman Mosntruous can only be Gothic, or Screening Alien Sex Fiends
Evan Hayles Gledhill
13 Gothic Inhumanism: Prometheanism, Nanotechnology, Accelerationism
Aspasia Stephanou
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Post/human/Gothic
Anya Heise-Von der Lippe
Part I: Organic
1 Zombie Apocalypse and the Conundrum of Posthumanity in David Wong’s Novels
Micheal Sean Bolton
2 Of Crakers and Men: Imagining the Future and Rethinking the Past in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
Antonie Peroikou
3 Of Posthuman Vampires: Science, Blood and Becoming-With
Lars Schmeink
Part II: Undead
4 ‘Lovie- is the vampire so bad?’: Posthuman Rhetoric in Richard Matheson’s I am Legend
Chris Koenig-Woodyard
5 Coexistence and Hospitality: The Gothic Utopian Vision of True Blood
Erica McCrystal
6 Forging Posthuman Identities in Dominic Mitchell’s In the Flesh
Maria Alberto
7 More than Human: Reading the Doppelgänger and Female Monstrosity in Television Vampires
Maria Marino-Faza
Part III: Evolving
8 There’s Something in There: The Posthuman Gothic Mind/Body Divide in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake
Amalya Ashman and Amy Taylor
9 Still Alive: Understanding Femininity in Valve’s Portal Games
Dawn Stobbart
10 Patchwork Girls: Reflections of Lost Female Identity in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours
Donna Mitchell
Part IV: Reimagined
11 Being Virtual: The True (Posthu)man Show
Dennis Yeo
12 The Posthuman Mosntruous can only be Gothic, or Screening Alien Sex Fiends
Evan Hayles Gledhill
13 Gothic Inhumanism: Prometheanism, Nanotechnology, Accelerationism
Aspasia Stephanou
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Professor Isabella van Elferen, Kingston University London
"This collection fills a long-standing hiatus in Gothic scholarship. Lucidly organised into the four orders of posthuman Gothic, this remarkable volume reconfigures our understanding of the post/human condition. Organic, Undead, Evolving, Reimagined – Posthuman Gothic reveals how traditional primacies and normativities shift, blend and dissolve. Finally."
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