Ecogothic. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes.
• Editors: Smith, Andrew, 1964-; Hughes, William, 1964-
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: defining the EcoGothic / Andrew Smith and William Hughes -- Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel / Lisa Kroger -- Monsters on the Ice and Global Warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons / Catherine Lanone -- Algernon Blackwood: Nature and Spirit / David Punter -- 'A Strange Kind of Evil': Superficial Paganism and False Ecology in The Wicker Man / William Hughes -- Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian EcoGothic / Alanna F. Bondar -- Margaret Atwood's Monsters in the Canadian EcoGothic / Shoshannah Ganz -- From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan Influence on American Gothic Nature /Tom J. Hillard -- 'The Blank Darkness Outside': Ambrose Bierce and Wilderness Gothic at the End of the Frontier / Kevin Corstorphine -- Locating Subjectivity in the Post-Apocalypse: The American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace / Andrew Smith -- A Gothic Apocalypse: Encountering the Monstrous in American Cinema / Susan J. Tyburski -- The Riddle Was the Angel in the House: Towards an American Ecofeminist Gothic / Emily Carr -- 'Uncanny States': Global EcoGothic and the World-Ecology in Rana Dasgupta's Tokyo Cancelled / Sharae Deckard -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages .)
• Subjects: 809.93355; Ecocriticism; Gothic fiction (Literary genre); LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance; Ecocriticism; Gothic fiction (Literary genre); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781781707142; 1781707146; 9781526102911; 1526102919
• Related ISBNs: 0719086574; 9780719086571
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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