EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers
Herausgeber: Edney, Sue

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Produktbeschreibung

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781526145680
• ISBN-10: 1526145685
• Artikelnr.: 58586745

Autorenporträt

Sue Edney is a Senior Associate Teacher in English literature and Environmental Writing at the University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers - Sue Edney 1 Deadly
gardens: The 'Gothic green' in Goethe and Eichendorff - Heather I. Sullivan
2 'Diabolic clouds over everything': An ecoGothic reading of John Ruskin's
garden at Brantwood - Caroline Ikin 3 The Gothic orchard of the Victorian
imagination - Joanna Crosby 4 Gothic Eden: Gardens, religious tradition and
ecoGothic exegesis in Algernon Blackwood's 'The Lost Valley' and 'The
Transfer' - Christopher M. Scott 5 'That which roars further out': Gardens
and wilderness in 'The Man who Went too Far' by E. F. Benson and 'The Man
Whom the Trees Loved' by Algernon Blackwood - Ruth Heholt 6 Darwin's plants
and Darwin's gardens: Sex, sensation and natural selection - Jonathan Smith
7 'Tentacular thinking' and the 'abcanny' in Hawthorne's Gothic gardens of
masculine egotism - Shelley Saguaro 8 Green is the new black: Plant
monsters as ecoGothic tropes; vampires and femme fatales - Teresa
Fitzpatrick 9 Death and the fairy: Hidden gardens and the haunting of
childhood - Francesca Bihet 10 Presence and absence in Tennyson's gardens
of grief: 'Mariana', Maud and Somersby - Sue Edney 11 Blackwater Park and
the haunting of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White - Adrian Tait
Afterword: Z Vesper, the Wilderness Garden, Powis Castle - Paul Evans Index