Professor William Hughes

  • University of Macau
  • Professor, Literature
  • Macau

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My Publications

How fictional zombies express cultural unease regarding medicine and the environment.

  • Horror Studies
  • March 2021
  • This paper advances a detailed reading of Max Brooks' 'World War Z' which outlines how contemporary zombie fiction addresses issues of medical ethics and spare-part surgery as well as environmental...

Acknowledgements

  • March 2022

Bibliography

  • March 2022

Coda

  • March 2022

Conclusion

  • March 2022

Contents

  • March 2022

Dedication

  • March 2022

Figures

  • March 2022

Front Matter

  • March 2022

Index

  • March 2022

Preamble - ‘This far-famed skull’

  • March 2022

The dome of thought

  • March 2022

“This unfortunate book”: Bram Stoker and the Edwardian publishing industry

  • Irish Studies Review
  • January 2021

Introduction: CoronaGothic, Culture, and Crisis

  • Critical Quarterly
  • December 2020

Pandemics, Social Disruption, and Dark Skies: Apocalyptic Fictions and the end of Human...

  • Critical Quarterly
  • December 2020

Surgical hypnotism

  • November 2015

Ecogothic

  • November 2015

‘A strange kind of evil’

  • November 2015

Preamble

  • November 2015

Medical magnetism

  • November 2015

Conclusion

  • November 2015

Bibliography

  • November 2015

‘To build together a new nation’: Colonising Europe in Bram Stoker's The Lady of the Sh...

  • Gothic Studies
  • November 2003

Introduction: Defining the Relationships between Gothic and the Postcolonial

  • Gothic Studies
  • November 2003

Literature

  • Irish Studies Review
  • December 2000

Introduction: Reading beyond Dracula

  • January 2000

Beyond Dracula

  • January 2000

Afterword

  • January 2000

Pity and Terror: Theology, Morality and Popular Fiction

  • January 2000

‘Un Vrai Monsieur’: Chivalry, Atavism and Masculinity

  • January 2000

The Sanguine Economy: Hysteroid Pathology and Physiological Medicine

  • January 2000

The Taming of the New: Race, Biological Destiny and Assertive Womanhood

  • January 2000

Introducing Patrick to his new self: Bram Stoker and the 1907 Dublin exhibition

  • Irish Studies Review
  • June 1997

‘For Ireland's good’: The reconstruction of rural Ireland in Bram stoker's ‘the snake's...

  • Irish Studies Review
  • September 1995

Conclusion: ‘This is that devil’s trick - hypnotism!’

Chapter 3: Surgical hypnotism