Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Sivils Keetley, Dawn (Lehigh University Keetley
• Assisted by: Matthew Sivils (Editor), Dawn Keetley (Editor), Matthew Wynn Sivils (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2019
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9780367884277
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88427-7
• Pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Rue Morgue, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Environmental Humanities, Animal Studies, Animal Kingdom, American Romanticism, American Gothic, Junk DNA, Mary Prince, nineteenth-century fiction, Young Man, Charles Brockden Brown, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Edgar Huntly, Gallows Hill, Nineteenth Century American Literature, American Gothic fiction, American gothic literature, material ecocriticism, extinction narratives, slave narrative analysis, environmental fear in literature, Goophered Grapevine, Leonora Sansay, South African Shores, Slave Narrators, Teresa Goddu, Hawthorne’s Preface, Frozen Mammoth