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Contents of JFA 23.1 (2012)

Introduction: In Praise of Anticlimaxes
Brian Attebery
Articles
"More Than Human": The Queer Gothic Scientist of the Fin-de-Siècle
Mark De Cicco
"A Sort of Mouse-Person": Radicalizing Gender in The Witches
Jennifer Mitchell
The Aesthetics of Risk in Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later
Jordan S. Carroll
"Ta'mey Dun, Bommey Dun" (Great Deeds, Great Songs): The Klingon Opera U as Ethnodramaturgical Performance
Jen Gunnels
"You Have Grown Very Much": The Scouring of the Shire and the Novelistic Aspects of The Lord of the Rings
Nicholas Birns
Review Essay
I Am Not Philip K. Dick
Rev. by Jason P. Vest
Reviews
Jason Fisher’s Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays
Rev. by Emily E. Auger
Ina Karg and Iris Mende’s Kulturphänomen Harry Potter. Multiaddressiertheit und Internationalität eines nationalen Literatur- und Medienevents [The Cultural Phenomenon of Harry Potter: Multiple-audience Directedness and Internationality of a National Literary and Cultural Event]
Rev. by Bruce A. Beatie
L. Andrew Cooper’s Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture
Rev. by Ralph Beliveau
Tom Duggett’s Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form
Rev. by Elizabeth Massa Hoiem
Peter Y. Paik’s From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
Rev. by Dale Knickerbocker
Paul Kerry’s The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Lord of the Rings
Rev. by Corey Latta
Gregory Jerome Hampton’s Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires
Rev. by Isiah Lavender, III
Masood Ashraf Raja, Jason W. Ellis, and Swaralipi Nandi’s The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction
Rev. by Isiah Lavender, III
Dimitra Fimi’s Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits
Rev. by Jennifer L. Miller
Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D. C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger’s Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Vol. VII
Rev. by T. S. Miller
Stephen A. Mitchell’s Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Rev. by Rikk Mulligan
Philippe Met’s La Lettre tue: Spectre(s) de l’écrit fantastique [The Letter Kills/Silences: Spectres of Fantastic Writing]
Rev. by Amy J. Ransom
Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte’s Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic
Rev. by Amy J. Ransom
Mark Williams’s Fiery Shapes: Celestial Portents and Astrology in Ireland and Wales 700–1700
Rev. by Don Riggs
Sarah Larratt Keefer, Karen Louise Jolly, and Catherine E. Karkov’s Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter
Rev. by Piers Michael Smith
Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk’s The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Rev. by Jason P. Vest
Umberto Rossi’s The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels
Rev. by Jason P. Vest
Ingrid Thaler’s Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson
Rev. by Monty Vierra
Srdjan Smajic’s Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science
Rev. by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Brigid Cherry’s Horror
Rev. by Matt Yockey