Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Dawn Keetley, Matthew Sivils, USA) Keetley, Dawn (Lehigh University, USA) Sivils, Matthew (Iowa State University

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First Published in 2017. The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates a new and provocative literacy category, one that exists at the crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-22
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
Antal sidor238
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138206458

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Dawn Keetley is Professor of English at Lehigh University, author of　Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), and co-editor of　Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film　(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).Matthew Wynn Sivils is professor of English at Iowa State University and the author of American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014).

Table of ContentsAbstracts vIntroduction: Approaches to the EcogothicDawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils 11. "Perverse Nature": Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar HuntlyTom J. Hillard 332. "A Heap of Ruins": The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay’s Secret HistoryLisa M. Vetere 58 3. "The Earth was Groaning and Shaking": Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary PrinceAmanda Stuckey 804. "Give me my skin": William J. Snelling’s "A Night in the Woods" (1836) and the Gothic Accusation against Buffalo ExtinctionJimmy L. Bryan Jr. 1035. Failures to Signify: Poe’s Uncanny Animal OthersKate Huber 1306. Gothic Materialisms: Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortalityLiz Hutter 1527. "The Birth-Mark," "Rappaccini’s Daughter," and the EcogothicLesley Ginsberg 180 8. Ghoulish Hinterlands: Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave NarrativesJericho Williams 2129. Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees: The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Chasing IceCari M. Carpenter 23210. Vegetal Haunting: The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American FictionMatthew Wynn Sivils 25311. Ecogothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan MammothJennifer Schell 27512. Hyperobjects and the End of the World: Elemental Antagonists of American NaturalismJeffrey Andrew Weinstock 29913. "Two Distinct Worlds"? Maintaining and Transgressing Boundaries of the HumAnimal in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & DixonMichael Fuchs 322Contributor Biographies 346