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Haunted nature : entanglements of the human and the nonhuman / Sladja Blazan, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave gothic series
- Palgrave gothic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, American--21st century--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, American.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
- Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : color illustrations.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Haunting and Nature: An Introduction
- Haunting
- Nature
- Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Chthulucene and the Ecogothic
- Trajectory
- Works Cited
- Chapter 2: Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature
- The Origins of the Microgothic
- "All monstrous, all prodigious things": William Heath's "Monster Soup"
- "[P]rofoundly vicious, treacherous and malignant": Mark Twain's Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes
- The Microbiome and Its Epistemological and Aesthetic Challenges in BioArt
- "And I held it in my hand, the most terrifying of all ills": Anna Dumitriu's The Bacterial Sublime
- Conclusion: The Persistence of the Microgothic
- Chapter 3: Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, "Gray Matter," and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House"
- Black Mold and Post-Death Existence
- White Post-Death
- Climate Crisis, Extinction Fears
- Black Growth, White Extinction
- Black Mold, Black Slavery
- Works Cited
- Chapter 4: Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material Within the Aesthetics of the EcoGothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation
- The Vegetation Belt
- The Monstrous Root
- Human Phytographia and Vegetomorphism
- Indigenous Roots of Chthonic Monsters in Popular Culture
- Chapter 5: An Ecology of Abject Women: Frontier Gothicism and Ecofeminism in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Introduction: Frontier Realism, Gothic Symbolism, and Ecological Feminism
- Frontier Aesthetics and Ecofeminist Politics in We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Conclusion: Haunted Natures in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 6: Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene
- Introduction
- (Representing) Capitalocene Violence in the Global North and South
- Gothic and Horror in the Capitalocene: Crawl
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Haunted Technonature: Anthropocene Coloniality in Ng Yi-Sheng's Lion City
- Singapore and Anthropocene Hegemony
- Uncanny Technonature
- Singapore, Crisis, and Environmental Management
- Coloniality and the Capitalocene
- Haunting the Anthropocene
- Irrealist Aetiologies
- Decolonizing Emergency
- Chapter 8: Haunted Nature, Haunted Humans: Intelligent Trees, Gaia, and the Apocalypse Meme
- Intelligent Trees and Haunted Nature
- Apocalyptic Endings and Haunted Humans
- Chapter 9: The Global Poltergeist: COVID-19 Hauntings
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 3030818691
- 9783030818692
- Publisher Number:
- 99989449572
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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