#gothic animals

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Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature), edited by Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Cover image by Thomas Baker/Alarmy Stock Photo, info: palgrave.com.

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory. After the dissemination of Darwin’s theories of evolution, nineteenth-century fiction quickly picked up on the idea of the ‘animal within’. Here, the fear explored was of an unruly, defiant, degenerate and entirely amoral animality lying (mostly) dormant within all of us. However, non-humans and humans have other sorts of encounters, too, and even before Darwin, humans have often had an uneasy relationship with animals, which, as Donna Haraway puts it, have a way of ‘looking back’ at us. In this book, the focus is not on the ‘animal within’ but rather on the animal ‘with-out’: other and entirely incomprehensible.

Contents: 1. Introduction – Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson     Part I. Hell-Beasts and Haunting 2. ‘Like a Madd Dogge’: Demonic Animals and Animal Demoniacs in Early Modern English Possession Narratives – Brendan C. Walsh 3. ‘Most Hideous of Gaolers’: The Spider in Ernest G. Henham’s Tenebrae – Paul Benedict Grant 4. Devouring the Animal Within: Uncanny Otherness in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs – Anja Höing 5. Hunted, Now Haunting: The Thylacine as a Gothic Symbol in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter – Alex Philp 6. ‘What Do I Use to Make Them Afraid?’: The Gothic Animal and the Problem of Legitimacy in American Superhero Comics – Fred Francis 7. Imagining the Becoming-Unextinct of Megalodon: Spectral Animals, Digital Resurrection, and the Vanishing of the Human – Michael Fuchs     Part II. Unruly Creatures and the Dangers of Domestication 8. ‘Rats Is Bogies I Tell You, and Bogies Is Rats’: Rats, Repression, and the Gothic Mode – Matthew Crofts and Janine Hatter 9. At Home with Miniature Sea-Monsters: Philip Henry Gosse, Charles Kingsley, and ‘The Great Unknown’ – Sue Edney 10. Uncanny Snails: Patricia Highsmith and the Allure of the Gastropods – Fiona Peters 11. ‘I Have Flyophobia’: Jane Rice’s ‘The Idol of the Flies’ and Evil as Unwanted Houseguest – Kevin Knott 12. ‘Encircled by Minute, Evilly-Intentioned Airplanes’: The Uncanny Biopolitics of Robotic Bees – Franciska Cettl     Part III. Cultural Anxiety, Violence, and the Non-Human Body 13. A Bark and Stormy Night: Ann Radcliffe’s Animals – Heather Ladd 14. Hellish Horses and Monstrous Men: Gothic Horsemanship in Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe – Kirstin A. Mills 15. The Colonial Idol, the Animalistic, and the New Woman in the Imperial Gothic of Richard Marsh – Shuhita Bhattacharjee 16. Victor Hugo’s Pieuvre and the Marine EcoGothic – Natalie Deam 17. The Human Within and the Animal Without?: Rats and Mr Bunnsy in Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents – Rebecca Lloyd 18. Companion Animals in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Gothic – Timothy C. Baker Index

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Art by  Dragibuz

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By  The Black Veil Studio

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Art by  JadeMerien

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My old “Black Dog/Black Sheep” design that I revamped.