Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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ID8090871
EditorsDawn Keetley (0000-0002-5007-4126, corresponding author), Matthew Wynn Sivils
Year2017
Publication date2017-11-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEcogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315464930
OpenAlexW3005361264
ISBN9781315464930
Open LibraryOL40059669M
LanguageEN
Citations received13

In its broadest sense, the ecogothic is a literary mode at the intersection of environmental writing and the gothic, and it typically presupposes some kind of ecocritical lens. Indeed, in the only book devoted to the topic, Andrew Smith and William Hughes define ecogothic as “exploring gothic through ecocriticism,” demonstrating the virtual inextricability of the two concepts. Emergent in the 1990s, ecocriticism has devoted itself to studying the literary and cultural relationships of humans to the nonhuman world—to animals, plants, minerals, climate, and ecosystems. Adopting a specifically gothic ecocritical lens illuminates the fear, anxiety, and dread that often pervade those relationships: it orients us, in short, to the more disturbing and unsettling aspects of our interactions with nonhuman ecologies

American literature · Art · Literature · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · 19th century · American literature (collections) · Biography & Autobiography · Ecocriticism · Gothic fiction (literary genre) · Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American · History and criticism · Literary · History

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