Overview

Exhuming and reanimating an obscure ancient cunning associated with the monstrous, the hybrid, the feminine and the nonhuman, this study proposes a novel transdisciplinary framework for analysing Gothic media and discourse through the lens of mtis. Mtis. Using mtis as both theme and method, Gothic Mtis weaves together myth, literature, rhetorical theory and critical posthumanism, to analyse Gothic character and narration from the nineteenth century to the present while developing a post-anthropocentric praxis for representing, navigating and ultimately subverting the Anthropocene. Reading Gothic alongside and through mtis-and mtis alongside and through Gothic-this book highlights the Gothic mode as a timely, artful response to the rise of the Anthropocene, rendering a post-anthropocentric world beyond Man.

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Author:   Natasha Rebry Coulthard
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781837722136

ISBN 10:   1837722137
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   15 February 2025
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Glossary of Greek Terms Preface: Opening Lines on Liminal Times Introduction: Gothic Mētis: Cunning Monstrosity The First Braid: Gothic’s Twisted Domain Untangling the Gothic Mode Gothic’s Twisted Forms Gothic in the Long Long-Nineteenth Century The Second Braid: Post-Anthropocentric Thought Entanglements of Self and Other Posthumans, Monsters and Others Betwixt and ‘Between Betweens’: Liminality in Thinking and Being The Third Braid: Mētis in Myth and Rhetoric Metis/Mētis The Shifting, Shimmering World Return of the Repressed Gothic Mētis Chapter One: Fin de Siècle Shapeshifters and Gothic Tricksters Fin-de-siècle Flux Shapeshifting Gothic and Gothic Shapeshifters Arthur Machen’s Tricksters Snake Ladies and Shedding Skins Assembling Mētis Gothic Tricksters Chapter Two: Gothic Tentacularity Fin-de-siècle, Fin de Man ‘Precarious Man’: Evolution and Ecology in H. G. Wells The Tentacular and Tentacularity Dreadful Figures and Tentacular Tales: Cunning Models for the Chthulucene Mētis, the Twisted and the Dreadful Gothic Speculation Chapter Three: Jekyll’s Polytropos Ethos The Invention of Multiple Personality The tenuous ‘I’ of Dissociative Narrative Flexible Multiplicity ‘Gothic Psychology’ and the Multiplex Self The Postmodern, Posthuman Polymētis ‘Fantastic, ignoble, hardly human, or frankly non-human’ Gothic Rhetoric Chapter Four: From Hyde the Holobiont: The Monstrous Microbial Self Tricky Microbes ‘Homo Microbis’: The Holobiont Unsettling Man in Popular Microbiome Discourse Seething Zoos of Microbes: Popular Microbiome Discourse Dorion Sagan’s ‘Beautiful Monsters’ More Microbe than Man: Posthuman Gothic Framings of the Microbial Self Contaminated Ethics Chapter Five: Gothic Fungus: Mycorrhizae, Mētis and Monstrosity Crypts and Creeps A ‘study of corruption’: Arthur Machen’s ‘The Hill of Dreams’ Mētic Monsters in Gaia and In the Earth Mētic Mycorrhizae: In the Earth Subverting Anthropos: Gaia The Polyplokos Monster and Mētistic Rapport Gothic Mētis and the Ineffable More-than-Human World Chapter Six: Gothic Mētis and More-than-Human Rhetoric Spectres and Hauntings in Lee Genius Loci: The Spirit of Place Mētis and More-than-Human Rhetoric in Lee Haunting More-than-Human Rhetoric Gothic Environmentalism Gothic is Always Already Eco Postscript: Gothic Poros Gothic Métissage Talking with Ravens and Crows Closing Lines on Liminal Times References

Reviews

""Offering an original, as well as highly revealing, approach to the Gothic as inherently a 'trickster' mode of cultural critique, this stunning book delivers truly revisionist readings of major Gothic works from late Victorian-era classics to recent eco-horror films, all provocatively analyzed and theorized, in their historical contexts, as never before.""-- ""Jerrold E. Hogle, professor emeritus of English and University Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona"" ""Gothic Mētis uses an interdisciplinary approach to the Gothic to cover an astounding range of theoretical, cultural and textual ground. Drawing on the mythological concept of Metis and its theoretical and cultural ramifications, the text brings together such seemingly incongruous subjects as Victorian literature, microbes, rhizomes and tentacles to weave a fascinating critical web that is at once timely and innovative. This is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in Gothic theory and criticism - especially in new materialist or posthumanist approaches to the Gothic.""-- ""Anya Heise-von der Lippe, University of Tübingen""

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Natasha Rebry Coulthard is an instructor in English and academic writing as part of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.

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