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| "The House of Frankenstein" (1944) |
This post is inspired by the many
conferences which I attended last year. I have been playing about with these
questions for a while and they have been inspired by discussions regarding
post-humanism. In my work on lycanthropic literature, I consider how the
character of the werewolf affects our ideas about animal/human relations and
how humans Gothicise the natural world. In regards to animals, specifically
wolves, much of this stems from a tendency to see animals as object which we
can read our fears onto as opposed to subjects in their own right. This has led
to me musing on Gothic engagement with the human-subject and trying to
understand the never-quite-is of existence.