Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine
Awards:   Long-listed for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2022 Short-listed for British Society for Literature and Science Award 2022
Author:   Sara Wasson
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781526171719


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   21 March 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine


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Awards

  • Long-listed for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2022
  • Short-listed for British Society for Literature and Science Award 2022

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Author:   Sara Wasson
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781526171719


ISBN 10:   1526171716
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   21 March 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: bodies dis(re)membered: Gothic and the transplant imaginary 1 Clinical necropoetics: medical and ethics writing of death and transplantation 2 The bioemporium: corporate medical horror in late twentieth century American transfer fiction 3 Clinical labour and slow violence: transnational harvest horror and racial vulnerability at the turn of the millennium 4 Possession? Uncanny assemblage and embodied scripts in tissue recipient horror 5 Scalpel and metaphor: ‘machines of social death’ and state sanctioned harvest in dystopian fiction Coda: writing wounds Index -- .

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Winner of the 2022 Allan Lloyd Smith Prize, International Gothic Association '...a watershed moment in the history of medical Gothic.' Fantastika Journal 'This book provides a necessary and timely intervention into (re)considering the slow violence(s) wrought upon our own bodies and communities.' The Polyphony -- .


'...a watershed moment in the history of medical Gothic.' Fantastika Journal 'This book provides a necessary and timely intervention into (re)considering the slow violence(s) wrought upon our own bodies and communities.' The Polyphony -- .


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Sara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University

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