Review: Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

Werewolves, Wolves  and the Gothic Edited by Robert McKay and John Miller. (Wales: University of Wales Press, 2017. 272 pages). ISBN 9781786831026 The eleven essays in McKay and Miller’s Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic focus on a creature that has already been analysed critically in a number of texts in terms of the social anxieties …

Review: Posthuman Gothic

Anya Heise-von der Lippe (ed.), Posthuman Gothic. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017. 276 pages. ISBN: 978-1-78683-106-4    eISBN: 978-1-78683-107-1 In Posthuman Gothic the editor Heise-von der Lippe explains that the posthuman is a category that belongs – and is part of – the human, of all of us. As was the case with Frankenstein’s monster …