Carol Margaret Davison è una distinta studiosa letteraria il cui lavoro approfondisce i ricchi territori della scrittura femminile, della letteratura gotica, vittoriana e postcoloniale. La sua esperienza abbraccia diverse tradizioni letterarie, esaminandone le intricate sfumature e i contesti storici con acuta perspicacia. Davison apporta una profonda comprensione delle connessioni tra le opere letterarie e le correnti culturali più ampie. La sua erudizione è apprezzata per le sue analisi perspicaci e la sua capacità di illuminare aspetti della storia letteraria spesso trascurati.
Bodysnatcher provides new insight into the infamous story of Burke and Hare, who committed murders that shook 19th century Edinburgh. Told from the points of view of Burke and his partner Nelly, the darkly Gothic narrative exposes the psyche of a killer while also giving voice to the woman who endured his horrors.
Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.