EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century (eBook, ePUB)

Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers
Redaktion: Edney, Sue

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and ecoGothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens - hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts - with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of ecoGothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in ecoGothic studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526145673
• Artikelnr.: 60607982

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