Fear and Nature : Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene / edited by Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tidwell, Christy, editor.

Soles, Carter, 1971- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

AnthropoScene ; v8.

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Horror in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Human ecology in motion pictures.

Nature in literature.

Nature in motion pictures.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

University Park : Penn State University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ecohorror in the Anthropocene

Part 1. Expanding Ecohorror

1. Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood's "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and Lorcan Finnegan's Without Name

2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito's Uzumaki and the Scope of Ecohorror

3. "The Hand of Deadly Decay": The Rotting Corpse, America's Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe's "The Colloquy of Monos and Una"

Part 2. Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes

4 The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of Erosion

5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce's "A Tough Tussle"

6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the World

Part 3. The Ecohorror of Intimacy

7. From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Stephen King's Scatology and the Emergence of an Urban Environmental Gothic

8. "This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile": Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory's The Cormorant

9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral Ecohorror

Part 4. Being Prey, Being Food

10 Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho's Okja

11 Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the Screen

12 Naturalizing White Supremacy in The Shallows

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Tidwell, Christy Fear and Nature

ISBN:

9780271090436

027109043X

Publisher Number:

40030669219

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.