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Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature book
Edited ByDawn Keetley, Matthew Wynn Sivils
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 21 November 2017
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 244
eBook ISBN 9781315464930
Subjects Language & Literature
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Keetley, D., & Sivils, M.W. (Eds.). (2017). Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315464930
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First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
“Perverse Nature”
Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly
ByTom J. Hillard
chapter 2|14 pages
“A Heap of Ruins”
The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History
ByLisa M. Vetere
chapter 3|14 pages
“The Earth Was Groaning and Shaking”
Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary Prince
ByAmanda Stuckey
chapter 4|18 pages
“Give me my skin”
William J. Snelling’s “A Night in the Woods” (1836) and the Gothic Accusation Against Buffalo Extinction
ByJimmy L. Bryan
chapter 6|18 pages
Gothic Materialisms
Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortality
ByLiz Hutter
chapter 8|13 pages
Ghoulish Hinterlands
Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave Narratives
ByJericho Williams
chapter 9|14 pages
Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees
The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Chasing Ice
ByCari M. Carpenter
chapter 10|14 pages
Vegetal Haunting
The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
ByMatthew Wynn Sivils
chapter 11|16 pages
Ecogothic Extinction Fiction
The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth
ByJennifer Schell
chapter 12|15 pages
Hyperobjects and the End of the World
Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism
ByJeffrey Andrew Weinstock
chapter 13|15 pages
“Two Distinct Worlds”? Maintaining and Transgressing the Boundaries of the HumAnimal in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
ByMichael Fuchs
