ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
“Perverse Nature”
Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly
chapter 3|14 pages
“The Earth Was Groaning and Shaking”
Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary Prince
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
chapter 6|18 pages
Gothic Materialisms
Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortality
chapter 9|14 pages
Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees
The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Chasing Ice
chapter 12|15 pages
Hyperobjects and the End of the World
Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism
