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