Review Essay: Reading Monsters and Mutants in Kaisa Kortekallio’s Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (Bloomsbury 2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury 2024)
Abstract
This essay is a review of Kaisa Kortekallio’s Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction (2024) with special attention to the intersections between monstrosity and mutability.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Utopian
Dystopian
and Speculative Fiction
Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Publication details
- Journal / source
- C21 literature
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Publication date
- 3 March 2026
- Language
- EN