Bearing Witness to the Pain of Animalist Others: Troubled Kinship in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau
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This essay examines the ways in which Moreau’s grafting and its outcome elicit sympathy, disgust, and horror from a handful of human subjects, including Edward Prendick—the main observer and (unreliable) narrator of The Island of Doctor Moreau—and Montgomery. To that end, I seek to place Moreau in conversation with theorists of emotion. Because every single emotion has its own history (or historical and geographical specificity), the making of disgust and horror and transitory sympathy and pity, I contend, is informed by Darwin’s theory of evolution. With a particular focus on the production of the aforementioned emotions, I argue that Wells’s Moreau encapsulates the affective dimensions of contact zones between the human and nonhuman species at the dawn of the twentieth century. The predominantly negative emotions—disgust and horror—can actually be taken as an important index that marks the moment the kinship across the species divide is complicated.
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This essay examines the ways in which Moreau’s grafting and its outcome elicit sympathy, disgust, and horror from a handful of human subjects, including Edward Prendick—the main observer and (unreliable) narrator of The Island of Doctor Moreau—and Montgomery. To that end, I seek to place Moreau in conversation with theorists of emotion. Because every single emotion has its own history (or historical and geographical specificity), the making of disgust and horror and transitory sympathy and pity, I contend, is informed by Darwin’s theory of evolution. With a particular focus on the production of the aforementioned emotions, I argue that Wells’s Moreau encapsulates the affective dimensions of contact zones between the human and nonhuman species at the dawn of the twentieth century. The predominantly negative emotions—disgust and horror—can actually be taken as an important index that marks the moment the kinship across the species divide is complicated.
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