Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment), edited by Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils, paperback edition, Routledge, 2019 (2017). Info: routledge.com.
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 atthe crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit.
Contents: Introduction: Approaches to the Ecogothic – Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils 1. "Perverse Nature": Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly – Tom J. Hillard 2. "A Heap of Ruins": The Horrors of Deforestation in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History – Lisa M. Vetere 3. "The Earth was Groaning and Shaking": Landscapes of Slavery in The History of Mary Prince – Amanda Stuckey 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. 5. Failures to Signify: Poe’s Uncanny Animal Others – Kate Huber 6. Gothic Materialisms: Experimenting with Fire and Water in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of (Im)mortality – Liz Hutter 7. "The Birth-Mark," "Rappaccini’s Daughter," and the Ecogothic – Lesley Ginsberg 8. Ghoulish Hinterlands: Ecogothic Confrontations in American Slave Narratives – Jericho Williams 9.Bleeding Feet and Failing Knees: The Ecogothic in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Chasing Ice – Cari M. Carpenter 10. Vegetal Haunting: The Gothic Plant in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction – Matthew Wynn Sivils 11. Ecogothic Extinction Fiction: The Extermination of the Alaskan Mammoth – Jennifer Schell 12. Hyperobjects and the End of the World: Elemental Antagonists of American Naturalism – Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 13. "Two Distinct Worlds"? Maintaining and Transgressing Boundaries of the HumAnimal in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon – Michael Fuchs Notes on Contributors Index
