{"product_id":"gothic-animals-uncanny-otherness-and-the-animal-with-out-paperback","title":"Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Heholt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMelissa Edmundson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Heholt is a senior lecturer in English at Falmouth University. She has published widely on the topics of the Gothic, crime, gender and the supernatural. She is currently completing a monograph on the Victorian writer Catherine Crowe and is editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eRevenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelissa Edmundson is a lecturer in English at Clemson University and specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers and supernatural fiction. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Wales Press, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eWomen's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Heholt is a senior lecturer in English at Falmouth University. She has published widely on the topics of the Gothic, crime, gender and the supernatural. She is currently completing a monograph on the Victorian writer Catherine Crowe and is editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eRevenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMelissa Edmundson is a lecturer in English at Clemson University and specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers and supernatural fiction. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Wales Press, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eWomen's Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 310\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53763160408428,"sku":"9783030345426","price":226.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/23c8551f323231631aa516588c9f9a79.webp?v=1778741902","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/gothic-animals-uncanny-otherness-and-the-animal-with-out-paperback","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}