Confronting Eternity Strange (Im)mortalities, and States of Undying in Popular Fiction January 27, 2014 Edwin Bruce Bacon 46250931
[email protected] Department of English University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Supervisors: Dr. Anna Smith and Dr. Mary Wiles To Glen and Benjamin, The inspirations for immortality. ii Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS .....................................................................................................................III THESIS ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................... V AN INTRODUCTION TO IMMORTALITY.......................................................................................... VI GLOSSARY OF NEOLOGISMS AND UNIQUE PHRASES .................................................................... IX CHAPTER ONE: THE MIRIFIC MORTALITIES OF DOCTOR WHO ......................................................... 1 PHOENICAL MEN, AND “THE MASTER RACE” ............................................................................................. 1 Phoenical Bodies, Tardevism, and “The Long View” ................................................................... 3 Moriartesque Supervillainies: The Master as a Moriarty .......................................................... 13 The Master as a Cambion, as a Merl(i/y)n, and as a Misanthrope ........................................... 16 The Master as Misanthrope, and as Many...............................................................................