Smith / Unknown / Hughes EcoGothic

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0291-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: International Gothic Series

This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Smith, Andrew

Hughes, William

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: defining the EcoGothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes
2. Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel - Lisa Kröger
3. Monsters on the Ice and Global Warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons -
Catherine Lanone
4. Algernon Blackwood: Nature and Spirit - David Punter
5. ‘A Strange Kind of Evil’: Superficial Paganism and False Ecology in The Wicker Man - William Hughes
6. Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian EcoGothic - Alanna F. Bondar
7. Margaret Atwood’s Monsters in the Canadian EcoGothic - Shoshannah Ganz
8. From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan Influence on American Gothic Nature -Tom J. Hillard
9. ‘The Blank Darkness Outside’: Ambrose Bierce and Wilderness Gothic at the End of the Frontier - Kevin Corstorphine
10. Locating Subjectivity in the Post-Apocalypse: The American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace -
Andrew Smith
11. A Gothic Apocalypse: Encountering the Monstrous in American Cinema - Susan J. Tyburski
12. The Riddle Was the Angel in the House: Towards an American Ecofeminist Gothic - Emily Carr
13. ‘Uncanny States’: Global EcoGothic and the World-Ecology in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled - Sharae Deckard
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith Andrew:
Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)Hughes William:
William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa UniversityAndrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. 'He is a past president of the International Gothic Association

William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University. He is the founder-editor of Gothic Studies, the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association