Ecogothic
by Hughes, William Smith, Andrew
This volume provides a study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. It focuses on the late 18th century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.
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- Full title :Ecogothic / edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes.
Summary
This volume provides a study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. It focuses on the late 18th century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 198 pages ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0719086574, 9780719086571
- oclc:ocn828620977
- LC Classification:PN98.E36
- Dewey Decimal:809.93355
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: defining the EcoGothic / Andrew Smith and William Hughes -- Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel / Lisa Kroger -- Monsters on the Ice and Global Warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons / Catherine Lanone -- Algernon Blackwood: Nature and Spirit / David Punter -- 'A Strange Kind of Evil': Superficial Paganism and False Ecology in The Wicker Man / William Hughes -- Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian EcoGothic / Alanna F. Bondar -- Margaret Atwood's Monsters in the Canadian EcoGothic / Shoshannah Ganz -- From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan Influence on American Gothic Nature /Tom J. Hillard -- 'The Blank Darkness Outside': Ambrose Bierce and Wilderness Gothic at the End of the Frontier / Kevin Corstorphine -- Locating Subjectivity in the Post-Apocalypse: The American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace / Andrew Smith -- A Gothic Apocalypse: Encountering the Monstrous in American Cinema / Susan J. Tyburski -- The Riddle Was the Angel in the House: Towards an American Ecofeminist Gothic / Em…
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