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Author:   Dawn Keetley ,  Matthew Sivils
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367884277

ISBN 10:   0367884275
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Table of Contents Abstracts v Introduction: Approaches to the Ecogothic Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils 1 1. ""Perverse Nature"": Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly Tom J. Hillard 33 2. ""A Heap of Ruins"": The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History Lisa M. Vetere 58 3. ""The Earth was Groaning and Shaking"": Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary Prince Amanda Stuckey 80 4. ""Give me my skin"": William J. Snelling’s ""A Night in the Woods"" (1836) and the Gothic Accusation against Buffalo Extinction Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. 103 5. Failures to Signify: Poe’s Uncanny Animal Others Kate Huber 130 6. Gothic Materialisms: Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortality Liz Hutter 152 7. ""The Birth-Mark,"" ""Rappaccini’s Daughter,"" and the Ecogothic Lesley Ginsberg 180 8. Ghoulish Hinterlands: Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave Narratives Jericho Williams 212 9. Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees: The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Chasing Ice Cari M. Carpenter 232 10. Vegetal Haunting: The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Matthew Wynn Sivils 253 11. Ecogothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth Jennifer Schell 275 12. Hyperobjects and the End of the World: Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 299 13. ""Two Distinct Worlds""? Maintaining and Transgressing Boundaries of the HumAnimal"

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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).

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