Taxidermy and the Gothic - The Horror of Still Life

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic's collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy's imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.

List of contents

Introduction: Gothic Taxidermy; Chapter 1: The Two-Headed Kitten: The First Stitches of the Gothic; Chapter 2: Taxidermy and the Horror of Being-There; Chapter 3: Taxidermy and Taboo: Sex and Perversions; Chapter 4: Taxidermy, Fungibility, and the Everyday Gothic Horrors of Black Life; Afterword: All Stitched Up.

About the author

Elizabeth Effinger is an associate professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. She is the co-editor of William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror.

Summary

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Effinger
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781839990267
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-026-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature; Anthem Studies in Gothic Liter
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, ART / Film & Video, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Literary studies: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Taxidermy, Walter Potter and Charles Waterton