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The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

Manuel Aguirre’s The Closed Space: Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (1990) drew critical focus to the importance of enclosed spaces and Gothic literature; caverns, catacombs and labyrinths. For Aguirre ‘the world is defined in horror literatur... Read More about The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames.

'In the solitude of the cell': Cellular confinement in the emergence of the modern prison, 1850-1930 (2020)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2020). 'In the solitude of the cell': Cellular confinement in the emergence of the modern prison, 1850-1930. In J. Turner, & V. Knight (Eds.), The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration (23-44). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39911-5

“ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Peculiar’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay” (2020)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2020). “ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Peculiar’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay”. In M. Harmes, M. Harmes, & B. Harmes (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture (67-87). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7_5

Prison memoirs often consider the author’s life of crime prior to incarceration and reflect on the behaviors (e.g., greed) or structural violence (e.g., poverty, racism) that led them to the prison. But what happens then, when as in the case of Guant... Read More about “ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Peculiar’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay”.

'It's my destiny': Narrating prison violence and masculinity in the Shaun Attwood trilogy (2018)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2018). 'It's my destiny': Narrating prison violence and masculinity in the Shaun Attwood trilogy. In C. Bielby, & J. S. Murer (Eds.), Perpetrating Selves : Doing Violence, Performing Identity (133-154). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96785-1_7

Metcalf engages with a trilogy of memoirs written by Shaun Attwood, a UK citizen who spent six years in the US prison system. Utilising the burgeoning field of narrative criminology to frame her study of Attwood’s books, Metcalf addresses the fascina... Read More about 'It's my destiny': Narrating prison violence and masculinity in the Shaun Attwood trilogy.