ISBN:
9783030818692
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Gothic Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
813.0873809
Keywords:
Horror tales, American-History and criticism
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
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Horror tales, American
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Haunting and Nature: An Introduction -- Haunting -- Nature -- Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Chthulucene and the Ecogothic -- Trajectory -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature -- The Origins of the Microgothic -- "All monstrous, all prodigious things": William Heath's "Monster Soup" -- "[P]rofoundly vicious, treacherous and malignant": Mark Twain's Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes -- The Microbiome and Its Epistemological and Aesthetic Challenges in BioArt -- "And I held it in my hand, the most terrifying of all ills": Anna Dumitriu's The Bacterial Sublime -- Conclusion: The Persistence of the Microgothic -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, "Gray Matter," and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House" -- Black Mold and Post-Death Existence -- White Post-Death -- Climate Crisis, Extinction Fears -- Black Growth, White Extinction -- Black Mold, Black Slavery -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material Within the Aesthetics of the EcoGothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation -- The Vegetation Belt -- The Monstrous Root -- Human Phytographia and Vegetomorphism -- Indigenous Roots of Chthonic Monsters in Popular Culture -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: An Ecology of Abject Women: Frontier Gothicism and Ecofeminism in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Introduction: Frontier Realism, Gothic Symbolism, and Ecological Feminism -- Frontier Aesthetics and Ecofeminist Politics in We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Conclusion: Haunted Natures in the Twenty-First Century -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene -- Introduction.
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