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humanimalia-22566	Choudhury, Poulomi	Fuzzy Boundaries: Review of Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life (2024) by Elizabeth Effinger	2025	11	.pdf	application/pdf	3561	138	42	Effinger argues that the Gothic’s myriad incarnations — horror, Gothic horror, ecogothic — make it an unstable and protean concept, fraught with definitional dilemmas that have long agitated scholars. He argues that animals in Gothic literature can disrupt entrenched anthropocentric and masculinist ideologies, insisting that they be read not merely as reflections of human interiority but as agents that unsettle human exceptionalism itself.4 For Effinger, however, it is the affective jolt of recognizing parallelism — what Jane Desmond, in McHugh and Bez- an’s Configurations issue, calls a “transspecies speculation”5 of be- coming the animal — that lies at the heart of Gothic horror.	cache/humanimalia-22566.pdf	txt/humanimalia-22566.txt