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Gothic Animals - Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Gothic Animals - Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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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.
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