Posthuman Gothic

Anya Heise-von der Lippe is Assistant Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany.

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• Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Post/human/Gothic - Anya Heise-von der LippePart I: Organic1 Zombie Apocalypse and the Conundrum of Posthumanity in David Wong’s Novels - Michael Sean Bolton2 Of Crakers and Men: Imagining the Future and Rethinking the Past in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy - Antonia Perikou3 Of Posthuman Vampires: Science, Blood and Becoming-With - Lars SchmeinkPart II: Undead4 ‘Lovie – is the vampire so bad?’: Posthuman Rhetoric in Richard Matheson’s I am Legend - Chris Koenig-Woodyard5 Coexistence and Hospitality: The Gothic Utopian Vision of True Blood - Erica McCrystal6 Forging Posthuman Identities in Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh - Maria Alberto7 More than Human: Reading the Doppelgänger and Female Monstrosity in Television Vampires - Maria Marino-FazaPart III: Evolving8 There’s Something in There: The Posthuman Gothic Mind/Body Divide in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake - Amalya Ashman and Amy Taylor9 Still Alive: Understanding Femininity in Valve’s Portal Games - Dawn Stobbart10 Patchwork Girls: Reflections of Lost Female Identity in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours - Donna MitchellPart IV: Reimagined11 Being Virtual: The True (Posthu)man Show - Dennis Yeo12 The Posthuman Monstrous can only be Gothic, or Screening Alien Sex Fiends. - Evan Hayles Gledhill13 Gothic Inhumanism: Prometheanism, Nanotechnology, Accelerationism - Apasia StephanouBibliography Index