The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who

The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who is a volume of essays examining the abundant mythological elements underpinning the 50-year-run of the popular BBC television series Doctor Who. Contributors include a well known Doctor Who novelist, an organizer of one of the largest Doctor Who communities, plus several university scholars and Editors from Myth Ink Books. Explore the universe of The Doctor as seen through the eyes of myth and legend.


Foreword: Dream the Myth Onwards
Simon Guerrier

Preface: The Mythology of a Legend
Barnaby Edwards

Chapter1:
Canon, Myth and Memory in Doctor Who
C.B. Harvey

Chapter2:
Holy Terror and Fallen Demigod: The Doctor as Myth
Neil Clarke

Chapter 3:
I Am Vengeance, I Am the Night, I Am . . . the Doctor?
Leslie McMurtry

Chapter 4:
A Professor’s lesson for the Doctor:
The Doctor’s sub-creative journey toward Middle-earth
Anthony S. Burdge

Chapter 5:
Life During Wartime:
An Analysis of Wartime Morality in Doctor Who
Melissa Beattie

Chapter 6:
“It Turns Out they Died for Nothing”:
Doctor Who and the Idea of Sacrificial Death
Melody Green

Chapter 7:
Doctor Who and the Valkyrie Tradition, Part 1:
The Valiant Child and the Bad Wolf
Kristine Larsen

Chapter 8:
Doctor Who and the Valkyrie Tradition, Part 2:
Goddesses, Battle Demons, Wives and Daughters
Jessica Burke

Chapter 9:
The Doctor or the (post) modern Prometheus (tentatively titled)
Vincent O’Brien

Chapter 10:
“Mythology makes you feel something”:
The Russell T. Davies Era as sentimental Journey
Matt Hills


Afterword:
Anne Petty