Dark scenes from damaged earth: the gothic Anthropocene

"More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction"--

"What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars move beyond longstanding perspectives on the Anthropocene--such as science fiction and apocalyptic narratives--to show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction. Embracing pop cultural phenomena like True Detective, Jaws, and Twin Peaks, as well as topics from the New Weird and prehistoric shark fiction to ruin porn and the "monstroscene," Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Gothic while opening important new paths of inquiry. These essays map a genealogy of the Gothic while providing fresh perspectives on the ongoing climate chaos, the North/South divide, issues of racialization, dark ecology, questions surrounding environmental justice, and much more."--

Introduction: Gothic in the Anthropocene -- Part I. Anthropocene. The Anthropocene / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- De-extinction: A Gothic Masternarrative for the Anthropocene / Michael Fuchs -- Lovecraft vs. VanderMeer: Posthuman Horror (and Hope?) in the Zone of Exception / Rune Graulund -- Monstrous Megalodons of the Anthropocene: Extinction and Adaptation in Prehistoric Shark Fiction, 1974-2018 / Jennifer Schell -- A Violence "Just below the Skin": Atmospheric Terror and Racial Ecologies from the African Anthropocene / Esthie Hugo -- Part II. Plantationocene. Horrors of the Horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and the Landscapes of the Anthropocene / Lisa M. Vetere -- True Detective's Folk Gothic / Dawn Keetley -- Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Anthropocene, Animals, and Gothic / Justin D. Edwards -- Part III. Capitalocene. Gothic in the Capitalocene: World-Ecological Crisis, Decolonial Horror, and the South African Postcolony / Rebecca Duncan -- Overpopulation: The Human as Inhuman / Timothy Clark -- Digging Up Dirt: Reading the Anthropocene through German Romanticism / Barry Murnane -- Got a Light? The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return / Timothy Morton a…