All Outputs (7)

Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2015). Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics (99-112). Routledge

The Gothic has long been interested in failed communities, the snapping or violating of ties between kin or neighbours. As the Gothic mutates into new forms today, it is increasingly characterising texts which depict whole societies as wounded in the... Read More about Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control..

Using reading diaries in independent learning. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2015). Using reading diaries in independent learning. In L. Thomson (Ed.), Compedium of effective practice in directed independent learning (130-132). QAA HIgher Education Academy

Reading diaries (and optional ‘reading question’ diary prompts) are used to encourage year three English, and English and Film BA (Hons), students to develop their self-directed learning. Since critical theory can be daunting, the independent study –... Read More about Using reading diaries in independent learning..

Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. (2014)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2014). Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. In G. Byron, & D. Townshend (Eds.), The Gothic World (132-142). Routledge

The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. (2013)
Book Chapter
Artt, S., & Wasson, S. (2013). The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. In S. George, & B. Hughes (Eds.), Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of Vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the

Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E., & Wasson, S. (2011). Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. In Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0001

This Introduction introduces Gothic science fiction as a genre and discusses the text as a project to examine Gothic science fiction historically as well as to distinguish its textual forms. The chapters in this compilation provides sample writings p... Read More about Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010.

"A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. (2011)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2011). "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (73-86). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/

This timely book explores what might be termed Gothic science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seems to... Read More about "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning..

A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes. (2003)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2003). A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes. In L. Phillips (Ed.), The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London (77-95). Rodopi

Sensory abundance has always been a hallmark of cities, but with the onset of World War II London’s sensory geography was transformed. The resulting city lacked many of the hallmarks of cities before or since, and novels, photographs, and even card... Read More about A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes..