Outputs (3)

Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2015). Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction. Gothic Studies, 17(1), 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 process of marking off tissue as transferrable in legal and cultural terms pa... Read More about Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction.

Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship (2010)
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 vampire tale: specifically, a character addicted to drinking human blood an... Read More about Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship.

Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. (2004)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2004). Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation, 45, 130-144

This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of the double was extended when the term "human cloning" entered cultural par... Read More about Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship..