Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Keetley, Dawn; Sivils, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates a new and provocative literacy category, one that exists at the crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315464923
• Artikelnr.: 50217205

Autorenporträt

Dawn Keetley is Professor of English at Lehigh University, author of Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), and co-editor of Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Matthew Wynn Sivils is professor of English at Iowa State University and the author of American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Abstracts v
Introduction: Approaches to the Ecogothic
Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils 1
1. "Perverse Nature": Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles
Brockden Brown's
Edgar Huntly
Tom J. Hillard 33
2. "A Heap of Ruins": The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay's
Secret History
Lisa M. Vetere 58
3. "The Earth was Groaning and Shaking": Landscapes of Slavery in The
History of Mary Prince
Amanda Stuckey 80
4. "Give me my skin": William J. Snelling's "A Night in the Woods" (1836)
and the Gothic
Accusation against Buffalo Extinction
Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. 103
5. Failures to Signify: Poe's Uncanny Animal Others
Kate Huber 130
6. Gothic Materialisms: Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan
Poe's Tales of
(Im)mortality
Liz Hutter 152
7. "The Birth-Mark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and the Ecogothic
Lesley Ginsberg 180
8. Ghoulish Hinterlands: Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave
Narratives
Jericho Williams 212
9. Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees: The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom's Cabin and
Chasing Ice
Cari M. Carpenter 232
10. Vegetal Haunting: The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American
Fiction
Matthew Wynn Sivils 253
11. Ecogothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth
Jennifer Schell 275
12. Hyperobjects and the End of the World: Elemental Antagonists of
American Naturalism
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 299
13. "Two Distinct Worlds"? Maintaining and Transgressing Boundaries of the
HumAnimal