"More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction"--
"More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective on the Anthropocene. In this volume, more than a dozen scholars show that the Gothic offers a unique (and dark) interpretation of events like climate change, diminished ecosystems, and mass extinction"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Justin D. Edwards is professor of English and chair in Gothic studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of, most recently, Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas and coeditor of B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives. Rune Graulund is associate professor in American literature and culture at the Center for American Studies and director of the research cluster Anthropocene Aesthetics at the University of Southern Denmark. He is coauthor of Grotesque and Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality, and Innovative Travel Writing. Johan Höglund is professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is coeditor of B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives and Nordic Gothic.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Gothic in the Anthropocene Part I. Anthropocene 1. The Anthropocene Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 2. De-extinction: A Gothic Masternarrative for the Anthropocene Michael Fuchs 3. Lovecraft vs. VanderMeer: Posthuman Horror (and Hope?) in the Zone of Exception Rune Graulund 4. Monstrous Megalodons of the Anthropocene: Extinction and Adaptation in Prehistoric Shark Fiction, 1974–2018 Jennifer Schell 5. A Violence “Just below the Skin”: Atmospheric Terror and Racial Ecologies from the African Anthropocene Esthie Hugo Part II. Plantationocene 6. Horrors of the Horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Landscapes of the Anthropocene Lisa M. Vetere 7. True Detective’s Folk Gothic Dawn Keetley 8. Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Anthropocene, Animals, and Gothic Justin D. Edwards Part III. Capitalocene 9. Gothic in the Capitalocene: World-Ecological Crisis, Decolonial Horror, and the South African Postcolony Rebecca Duncan 10. Overpopulation: The Human as Inhuman Timothy Clark 11. Digging Up Dirt: Reading the Anthropocene through German Romanticism Barry Murnane 12. Got a Light? The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return Timothy Morton and Rune Graulund Part IV. Chthulucene 13. The Anthropocene Within: Love and Extinction in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge Johan Höglund 14. Rot and Recycle: Gothic Eco-burial Laura R. Kremmel 15. Erotics and Annihilation: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Queering the Weird, and Challenges to the “Anthropocene” Sara Wasson 16. Monstrocene Fred Botting Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Gothic in the Anthropocene Part I. Anthropocene 1. The Anthropocene Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 2. De-extinction: A Gothic Masternarrative for the Anthropocene Michael Fuchs 3. Lovecraft vs. VanderMeer: Posthuman Horror (and Hope?) in the Zone of Exception Rune Graulund 4. Monstrous Megalodons of the Anthropocene: Extinction and Adaptation in Prehistoric Shark Fiction, 1974–2018 Jennifer Schell 5. A Violence “Just below the Skin”: Atmospheric Terror and Racial Ecologies from the African Anthropocene Esthie Hugo Part II. Plantationocene 6. Horrors of the Horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Landscapes of the Anthropocene Lisa M. Vetere 7. True Detective’s Folk Gothic Dawn Keetley 8. Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Anthropocene, Animals, and Gothic Justin D. Edwards Part III. Capitalocene 9. Gothic in the Capitalocene: World-Ecological Crisis, Decolonial Horror, and the South African Postcolony Rebecca Duncan 10. Overpopulation: The Human as Inhuman Timothy Clark 11. Digging Up Dirt: Reading the Anthropocene through German Romanticism Barry Murnane 12. Got a Light? The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return Timothy Morton and Rune Graulund Part IV. Chthulucene 13. The Anthropocene Within: Love and Extinction in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge Johan Höglund 14. Rot and Recycle: Gothic Eco-burial Laura R. Kremmel 15. Erotics and Annihilation: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Queering the Weird, and Challenges to the “Anthropocene” Sara Wasson 16. Monstrocene Fred Botting Contributors Index
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