Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I Hell-Beasts and Haunting -- Chapter 2 'Like a Madd Dogge': Demonic Animals and Animal Demoniacs in Early Modern English Possession Narratives -- The Animal as Other -- Embodying the Animal -- Animal Imagery in the Possession of William Sommers -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 'Most Hideous of Gaolers': The Spider in Ernest G. Henham's Tenebrae -- References -- Chapter 4 Devouring the Animal Within: Uncanny Otherness in Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs
Chapter 9 At Home with Miniature Sea-Monsters: Philip Henry Gosse, Charles Kingsley, and 'The Great Unknown' -- Writing Science, Writing Wonder, Writing Fear -- Managing Rock Pools in the Home: Fact and Fiction -- Predators, Prey, and Pets -- Miniature Monsters on Display -- References -- Chapter 10 Uncanny Snails: Patricia Highsmith and the Allure of the Gastropods -- References -- Chapter 11 'I Have Flyophobia': Jane Rice's 'The Idol of the Flies' and Evil as Unwanted Houseguest -- The Place of Animal Cruelty in Domestic Gothic -- 'Summer Dreams' and Psychopathy: A New Kind of Hysteria
The Return of the Gothic Animal -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Imagining the Becoming-Unextinct of Megalodon: Spectral Animals, Digital Resurrection, and the Vanishing of the Human -- Gothic Media -- Becoming (Un)Extinct -- References -- Part II Unruly Creatures and the Dangers of Domestication -- Chapter 8 'Rats Is Bogies I Tell You, and Bogies Is Rats': Rats, Repression, and the Gothic Mode -- Rats Exposing Neglect and Destitution -- Rats as the Enemy and Invader -- Conclusion -- References
The Three Monkeys and Domestic Gothic's Satire -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 'Encircled by Minute, Evilly-Intentioned Airplanes': The Uncanny Biopolitics of Robotic Bees -- In the Beginning, There Was Mary Shelley's Insect -- Haunted by the Extinct Honeybee -- The Uncanny Biopolitics of Swarm Networks -- References -- Part III Cultural Anxiety, Violence, and the Non-Human Body -- Chapter 13 A Bark and Stormy Night: Ann Radcliffe's Animals -- Sensibility and the Animal -- A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), and The Italian (1797)
Undermining 'Animal' Constructions of Fear, Otherness, and Evil -- The Animal Subject as Uncanny Other -- The Animal 'Haunting Back' -- References -- Chapter 5 Hunted, Now Haunting: The Thylacine as a Gothic Symbol in Julia Leigh's The Hunter -- The History of the Thylacine, the Myth of the Tiger -- The Hunter: 'There Is (Re)New(ed) History to Be Made' -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 'What Do I Use to Make Them Afraid?': The Gothic Animal and the Problem of Legitimacy in American Superhero Comics -- The Raven and the Bat -- Building the Gothic Animal -- Comics in Context
0
8
8
8
8
Springer Nature
com.springer.onix.9783030345402
Gothic Animals : Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out.
9783030345396
Animals in literature.
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.