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Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature de Dawn Keetley

Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Editat de Dawn Keetley, Matthew Sivils
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2019
First Published in 2017. 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367884277
ISBN-10: 0367884275
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

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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

Notă biografică

Dawn Keetley is Professor of English at Lehigh University, author ofMaking a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), and co-editor ofPlant 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).


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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.