02865nam 2200529 450 991048092000332120220223205015.01-5261-0291-9(CKB)3710000000529359(EBL)4706038(MiAaPQ)EBC4706038(EXLCZ)99371000000052935920161013h20132013 uy 1engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEcogothic[electronic resource] /edited by Andrew Smith and William HughesManchester, England ;New York, New York :Manchester University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (213 p.)International GothicIncludes index.1-5261-0689-2 0-7190-8657-4 Cover; EcoGothic; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: defining the ecoGothic; 2 Panic, paranoia and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel; 3 Monsters on the ice and global warming: from Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons; 4 Algernon Blackwood: nature and spirit; 5 'A strange kind of evil': superficial paganism and false ecology in The Wicker Man; 6 Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian ecoGothic; 7 Margaret Atwood's monsters in the Canadian ecoGothic8 From Salem witch to Blair Witch: the Puritan influence on American Gothic nature9 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier; 10 Locating the self in the post-apocalypse: the American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy and Jim Crace; 11 A Gothic apocalypse: encountering the monstrous in American cinema; 12 The riddle was the angel in the house: towards an American ecofeminist Gothic; 13 'Uncanny states': global ecoGothic and the world-ecology in Rana Dasgupta's Tokyo Cancelled; IndexThis book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.International Gothic (Manchester, England)EcocriticismGothic fiction (Literary genre)Gothic novelsElectronic books.Ecocriticism.Gothic fiction (Literary genre)Gothic novels.809.9336Smith Andrew1964-Hughes William1964-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480920003321Ecogothic2102470UNINA