EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century : phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers / edited by Sue Edney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edney, Sue, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Gardens in literature.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century' provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through twelve exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Deadly gardens

2 Diabolic clouds over everything

3 The Gothic orchard of the Victorian imagination

4 Gothic Eden

5 That which roars further out

6 Darwins plants and Darwins gardens

7 Tentacular thinking and the abcanny in Hawthornes Gothic gardens of masculine egotism

8 Green is the new black

9 Death and the fairy

10 Presence and absence in Tennysons gardens of grief

11 Blackwater Park and the haunting of Wilkie Collinss The Woman in White

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 16, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526145697

1526145693

OCLC:

1230901276