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Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2015). Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies. Gothic Studies, 17(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.17.1.1

Gothic studies has long been concerned with representations of the fragility of human flesh in the grip of illness, as well as bodies confined by medical and legal discourse. The direction of influence goes both ways: Gothic literary elements have ar... Read More about Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies.

The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2012). The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction. Journal of Popular Culture, 45(1), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00919.x

Anne Rice's twelve vampire “autobiographies” continue to be hugely influential for vampire fiction and other artifacts of popular culture. This article explores two tropes which structure and enable the vampire communities throughout the twelve text... Read More about The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction.