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      Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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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
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315464930
      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 |20 pages

      Introduction

      Approaches to the Ecogothic
      ByDawn Keetley, Matthew Wynn Sivils

      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 5|13 pages

      Failures to Signify

      Poe’s Uncanny Animal Others
      ByKate Huber

      chapter 6|18 pages

      Gothic Materialisms

      Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortality
      ByLiz Hutter

      chapter 7|20 pages

      “The Birth-Mark,” “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” and the Ecogothic

      ByLesley Ginsberg

      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
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