Ecogothic
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Ecogothic
(International gothic)
Manchester University Press, 2016, c2013
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published in hardback: 2013
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context. -- .
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: defining the ecoGothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes
2. Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel - Lisa Kroeger
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
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