EcoGothic / edited by Andrew Smith, William Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Andrew, 1964- editor.

Hughes, William, 1964- editor.

Series:

International Gothic (Manchester, England)

Manchester Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.

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 / Emily Carr

'Uncanny States': Global EcoGothic and the World-Ecology in Rana Dasgupta's Tokyo Cancelled / Sharae Deckard

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526102928

1526102927

9781526102911

1526102919

OCLC:

976482520