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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. 'He is a past president of the International Gothic AssociationWilliam 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 Klappentext 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. To come Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: defining the EcoGothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes2. Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel - Lisa Kröger3. Monsters on the Ice and Global Warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons -Catherine Lanone4. Algernon Blackwood: Nature and Spirit - David Punter5. 'A Strange Kind of Evil': Superficial Paganism and False Ecology in The Wicker Man - William Hughes6. Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian EcoGothic - Alanna F. Bondar7. Margaret Atwood's Monsters in the Canadian EcoGothic - Shoshannah Ganz8. From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan Influence on American Gothic Nature -Tom J. Hillard9. 'The Blank Darkness Outside': Ambrose Bierce and Wilderness Gothic at the End of the Frontier - Kevin Corstorphine10. Locating Subjectivity in the Post-Apocalypse: The American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace -Andrew Smith11. A Gothic Apocalypse: Encountering the Monstrous in American Cinema - Susan J. Tyburski12. The Riddle Was the Angel in the House: Towards an American Ecofeminist Gothic - Emily Carr13. 'Uncanny States': Global EcoGothic and the World-Ecology in Rana Dasgupta's Tokyo Cancelled - Sharae DeckardIndex...
