Journal
Mercer, E. (2024). “This sense of otherness”: The Horrors of the Countryside in Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre..
Critique (Washington): studies in contemporary fiction.
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Mercer, E. (2021). “'In America?’: Children, Violence and Commodification in Stephen King’s The Institute”.
Extrapolation. 62(2), 199-213
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Mercer, E. (2021). “The Flaw Is Only the Inability to Accept”: Roads, Rationality and the Horror of Modernity in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.
Journal of Popular Culture. 54(1), 131-145
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Mercer, E. (2020). “‘This horrible patrimony’: Masculinity, War and the Upper Classes in Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster.”.
Gothic Studies. 22(3), 300-312 Retrieved from https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/gothic.2020.0063
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Mercer, E. (2020). "God is cruel": The Apocalyptic Imaginary of Stephen King's Desperation.
The Journal of American Culture. 43(2), 123-132 Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jacc.13130
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Mercer, E. (2019). “‘He was afraid of my insistence on “Ghostses”’: Haunting, Spectrality, and Jack Kerouac.
Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies. 6(1), 20-33 Retrieved from https://www.aeternumjournal.com/volume-6-issue-1
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Mercer, E. (2019). "The Difference Between World and Want: Adulthood and the Horrors of History in Stephen King's IT.".
The Journal of Popular Culture. 52(2), 315-329 Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12786
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Mercer, E. (2017). “‘Shot at and slashed and whacked’: The Gothic Slaughterhouse in New Zealand Fiction..
Journal of New Zealand Literature. 35(2), 51-72 Retrieved from https://jnzl.ac.nz/
[Journal article]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2017). Impossible horrors in ordinary front yards: The uncanny and Elizabeth Knox’s wake.
Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies. 4(1), 16-27 Retrieved from https://www.aeternumjournal.com/
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Mercer, ES. (2016). The wolf bane is blooming again: Gothic desire in R.H. Morrieson’s the scarecrow.
Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. 35, 1-13 Retrieved from http://www.textjournal.com.au/
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Mercer, ES. (2016). Sylvia Ashton-Warner's "strange cadences": Rereading Spinster and Incense to Idols.
Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 51(3), 446-464
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Mercer, ES. (2015). Violence and the return of the repressed in Mike Johnson’s
dumb show.
Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies. 2(2), 60-71
[Journal article]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2014). “‘A deluge of shrieking unreason’: Supernaturalism and Settlement in New Zealand Gothic Fiction.”.
M/C Journal. 17(4)
[Journal article]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2014). 'Manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs': Katherine Mansfield and the Colonial Gothic Tradition.
Journal of New Zealand Literature. 32(2), 85-105
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Mercer, ES. (2013). The great unread New Zealand novel: David Ballantyne's Sydney Bridge Upside Down.
Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 48(3), 393-409
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Mercer, ES. (2013). Slumming among the gravestones: Elizabeth Knox's daylight and the New Zealand canon.
Journal of New Zealand Literature. 31, 130-149
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Mercer, ES. (2013). The great unread New Zealand novel: David Ballantyne's Sydney Bridge upside down.
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 48(3), 393-409
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Mercer, ES. (2012). War, homecoming and genre: John Mulgan's man alone and Jack Kerouac's on the road.
Journal of New Zealand Studies. 13, 77-88
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Mercer, ES. (2010). “Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition.”.
Illusions: Moving Image and Performing Arts Criticism. , 48-51
[Book Review]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2010). "As Real as the Spice Girls": Representing Identity in Twenty-first Century New Zealand Literature..
Journal of New Zealand Studies. , 99-114 Retrieved from http://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/research/journals
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Mercer, ES. (2010). Automatons and the Atomic Abyss: The Naked and the Dead.
The Mailer Review. 4(1), 471-482 Retrieved from http://normanmailersociety.org/the-mailer-review/
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Mercer, ES. (2010). Monstrous identities: Critical realism and gothic fantasy in Maurice Gee's the fire-raiser.
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 45(1), 23-35 Retrieved from http://jcl.sagepub.com/
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Mercer, ES. (2009). “Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative.”.
Australasian Journal of American Studies. 28(2), 83-85
[Book Review]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2009). Frae ghosties and ghoulies deliver us: Keri Hulme's the bone people and the Bicultural Gothic.
Journal of New Zealand Literature. 27, 111-130 Retrieved from http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/jnzl/
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Book
Mercer, E.(2023).
Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary. : Routledge
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Mercer, E. (2022). "Stephen King". In P. O'Donnell, S. Burn, & L. Larkin (Eds.)
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980-2020. New York: Wiley Blackwell
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Mercer, E. (2021). "Totalitarianism". In M. Mckinley (Ed.)
Norman Mailer in Context. (pp. 183 - 192). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, E. (2018). “‘There Was More in this Darkness’: The New Zealand Ghost Story.”. In S. Brewster, & L. Thurston (Eds.)
The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. (pp. 242 - 250). New York, United States of America: Routledge
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Mercer, ES. (2017). The gothic in Oceania. In A. Jackson (Ed.)
New Directions in Children’s Gothic: Debatable Lands. (pp. 119 - 131). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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Mercer, ES.(2017).
Telling the real story: Genre and New Zealand literature. : Victoria University Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES.(2013).
In Johnsonville or Geraldine: An introduction to New Zealand literature. Auckland, New Zealand: Pearson
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Mercer, ES.(2011).
Repression and realism in post-war American literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Mercer, ES. (2009). Urban spaces, hybrid faces: Rethinking identity in Paula Morris's Hibiscus Coast. In A. Jackson, & J. Stafford (Eds.)
Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. (pp. 124 - 141). Wellington: Victoria University Press
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Conference
Mercer, E. (2022, January). “‘That weird cat’: Steven King’s Pet Sematary and the Return of the Dead.”. Presented at
Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia
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Mercer, E. (2022, September). “Second Sight: Gothic Identities in Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep”. Presented at
Popular Culture Research Centre
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Mercer, E. (2021, April). “Stephen Kings’ The Institute: Children, Violence and Commodification". Presented at
Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand
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Mercer, E. (2019, April). “This horrible patrimony”: Houses, Histories and Madness in Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster.. Presented at
Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australis
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Mercer, E. (2019, April). looking Backwards: Contemporary Realism and the Masculine Pākehā Past in Laurence Fearnley’s The Hut Builder. Presented at
Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies
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Mercer, E. (2019, May). “God is cruel”: The Apocalyptic Imaginary of Stephen King’s Desperation". Presented at
PCA/ACA Annual National Conference
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Mercer, E. (2019, January). “’This horrible patrimony’: Houses, Histories and Madness in Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster”. Presented at
“Gothic Journeys: Paths, Crossings, and Intersections”. Surfers Paradise, Australia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, E. (2018, July). “Gothic Histories in Stephen King’s IT: The Difference between World and Want”. Presented at
The 9th Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference. Auckland.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2017, January). “When Horror Won’t Sleep: Elizabeth Knox’s Wake and the Return of the Repressed”. Presented at
“Gothic Afterlives: Mutations, Histories and Returns”. Auckland.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2016, August). “New Zealand Literature and the Slaughterhouse Tradition”. Presented at
“Un/Popular Narratives”. Auckland University of Technology.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2016, June). Haunting and Spectrality in the Work of Jack Kerouac. Presented at
The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2015, February). "Gothic Death and Mike Johnson's Dumb Show". Presented at
Popular Culture Research Centre Symposium. Auckland.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2015, January). "Necrophilia, Incest and Rape: Gothic Transgression in R. H. Morrieson’s The Scarecrow". Presented at
Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia. Sydney.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2013, February). Manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs’: Katherine Mansfield as a Gothic writer. Presented at
Katherine Mansfield: Masked and Unmasked. Victoria University of Wellington.
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Mercer, ES. (2012, January). Frank Sargeson, Gothic, and the Problem of Evil. Presented at
Gothic Antipodes: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Auckland.
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Mercer, ES. (2012, December). This Unspeakable Evasion: Saul Bellow and the Holocaust. Presented at
The Limits of Responsibility: Histories, Species, Politics. Massey University, Palmerston North.
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Mercer, ES. (2011, September). "Genre and Colonial Identity in Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' and John Mulgan's 'Man Alone'. Presented at
"Man Alone". Stout Centre for New Zealand Research.
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Mercer, ES. (2011, September). Men, Sometimes with Other Men, Moving: Stereotypes and National Identity in John Mulgan’s "Man Alone" and Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road".. Presented at
Man Alone Conference. Stout Centre for New Zealand Research, Wellington, New Zealand..
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Mercer, E.Mercer, ES. (2010, June). "Critical Realism and Gothic Fantasy in New Zealand Children's Fiction". Presented at
Symposium: Children and Young Adults Literature in New Zealand. Victoria University.
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Mercer, ES. (2009, September). Performing self: Identity in recent New Zealand fiction and theatre. Presented at
Antipodes: New Directions in New Zealand History and Culture. Stout Centre for New Zealand Research.
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Mercer, ES. (2008, July). “Don’t Mention the War: The Uncanny and Norman Mailer’s 'The Naked and the Dead'”. Presented at
Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association conference. University of Sydney.
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Mercer, ES. (2008, December). “Frae ghosties an ghoulies deliver us”: Gothic Horror in Keri Hulme’s 'the bone people'. Presented at
Flogging a Dead Horse: Are National Literatures Dead?. Stout Centre for New Zealand Research.
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