The special issue addresses introduces a new field of inquiry, the EcoGothic, which includes, among others, two essays on carnivorism and speciesism in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The issue is available in preview on the Manchester University Press website and by subscription through many university libraries. A brief description of the issue follows below.
This special issue of Gothic Studies brings together Gothic works--British, Irish and Italian--to consider their engagement with species- and environement-related issues through the theoretical lens of an emerging field of critical inquiry–the EcoGothic. An EcoGothic approach takes a nonanthropocentric position to reconsider the role that species, nonhumans and the environment play in the construction of monstrosity and fear, examining the construction of the Gothic body–unhuman, nonhuman, transhuman, posthuman, or hybrid–through a more inclusive, antispeciest lens.
Contents
The EcoGothic in the Long Nineteenth Century David Del Principe
Abominable Transformations: Becoming-Fungus in Arthur Machen’s
The Hill of Dreams Anthony Camara
(M)eating Dracula: Food and Death in Stoker’s Novel David Del Principe
The Bog Gothic: Bram Stoker’s ‘Carpet of Death’ and Ireland’s Horrible Beauty Derek Gladwin
Italian Rural Gothic: The Powers of Were-Goats in Tommaso Landolfi’s La pietra lunare [The Moonstone] Keala Jewell
Meat, Cannibalism and Humanity in Paul du Chaillu’s Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, or, What Does a Gorilla Hunter Eat for Breakfast? John Miller
‘L’orrida magnificenza del luogo.’ Gothic Aesthetics in Antonio Fogazzaro’s Malombra Maria Parrino
An Already Alienated Animality: Frankenstein as a Gothic Narrative of Carnivorism Jackson Petsche
Between Darwin and San Francesco: Zoographic Ambivalences in Mantegazza, Ouida, and Vernon Lee Nicoletta Pireddu
(Thank you to David Del Principe for both putting this together, and letting me know this existed).
