Serial Killers and Serial Spectators

Anhiti Patnaik, Ph.D. Cultural Studies, Trent University (2018) teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in India. Her research areas include Victorian and World Literature, Gender Studies, and Cultural Criminology. She has published articles in Bronte Studies, Neo-Victorian Studies, Journal of World Literature, and Journal of International Women's Studies.Elana Gomel is Professor Emerita at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University. Among her many books are Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (OSU Press, 2003) and Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014) She is the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy (2023). She is also an award-winning fiction writer.

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• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Spectacle of Serial Violence in Global Literature and MediaPart 1 Seriality of Violence1 Abattoir Elegantiarum: Fashion Victimology and Hannibal’s Grand DesignsSeth Wilder2 Eat, Sleep, Read, Repeat: Excess and Enjoyment in TomieShweta Khilnani3 Caught in Observation: Sublime tableaux morts in Female Serial Killer NarrativesNatalia IglPart 2 Moral Panics and Murderous Sublime4 “The Horror in Whitechapel”: Sensational Journalism in the Jack the Ripper MurdersChen F. Michaeli5 (Wo)Mens Rea: The Strange Case of Anne Perry and Murder of/for/by WomenAnhiti Patnaik6 A Poetics of Restlessness: The House That Jack Built and the Conventions of Serial Killer FictionLuciano Cabral and Pedro SassePart 3 Transnational Evil of Banality7 Murder and Meaning: The Ordinariness of Violence in Memories of MurderReza Pourmikail8 Lurid and Unlimited: Interpreting Bateman’s Banality in American PsychoPatrick Lawrence9 The Digital Banal and Sublime Justice in Chinese Internet LiteratureLina QuPart 4 Spacetime of Violence10 “Blood on the Snow”: Nordic Noir as a Fantasy TravelogElana Gomel11 “Le immagini ti guardano”: The Gallery City in the Giallo Genre of Italian CinemaPeter Vorissis12 Santusthi and Jodidar through Serial Killing in Raman Raghav 2.0Aratrika DasConclusion: Healing through Horror in a Pandemic—The Editors in DialogueAnhiti Patnaik and Elana Gomel