The Written Dead: Essays on the Literary Zombie

Table of Contents
Preface: A Note from the Editors
Introduction: The Rise of the Written Dead • Angela Tenga and Kyle William Bishop
Section One: Zombie Literature—First Words, Baby Steps
	Trailing the Zombie Through Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature • Kevin Alexander Boon
	The Attributes and Qualifiers of Literary Zombies • Bernard Perron
	Love, Connection and intimacy in Zombie Short Fiction • Laura Hubner
Section Two: Max Brooks—Rite of Passage
	Analyzing Late Modernity with a Corpse: Max Brooks’ Zombie Understanding of Modernity • Marcus Leaning
	Dispatches of the Dead: World War Z and the Post-Vietnam Combat Memoir • W. Scott Poole
Section Three: The Zombie Novel—Coming of Age
	Carrie Ryan’s Romance of the Forest: Mudos, Young Adult Novels and the Gothic • Cory James Rushton
	Toward a Genealogy of the American Zombie Novel: From Jack London to Colson Whitehead • Wylie Lenz
	“Systems Die Hard”: Resistance and Reanimation in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One • Kelli Shermeyer
Section Four: Revisionist Novels—Entering Maturity
	“Condemned to history by the Hate”: David J. Moody’s Hater and Postmillennial Rage • Dawn Keetley
	The Psychosomatic Zombie Man: The Postmodern Subject in Warm Bodies • Steven Holmes
	Feeding the Frenzy: Mira Grant’s Feed • Arnold T. Blumberg
	Teaching Zombies, Developing Students: Pedagogical Success in The Girl with All the Gifts • Kyle William Bishop
	Desiring Machines: Zombies, Automata and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road • Jesse Stommel
Afterword: The Zombie Is Dead: Long Live the Zombie • Robert G. Weiner
Filmography
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index