ISBN:
9783030351540
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 308 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
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21 cm
Serie:
Palgrave gothic
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Parker, Elizabeth The forest and the ecogothic
DDC:
809.38729
Schlagwort(e):
Gothic fiction (Literary genre) History and criticism
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Forests and forestry in literature
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Electronic books
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Ecocriticism
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Gothic novel
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Wald
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Angst
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Into the Woods -- 2 Theorising the Forest: Approaching a Dark Ecology -- 2.1 The Echoing Green -- 2.2 The EcoGothic -- 2.3 'That Theatre of Superstition': Mythologies and the Forest -- 2.4 Why We Fear the Forest (Seven Theses) -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 'What If It's the Trees?': The Living Forest -- 3.1 EcoGothic Roots: The Willows Were Against Us -- 3.2 When Nature Gets Nasty: The Threat of Attack and Arboreal Nightmares -- 3.3 Monstrous Mother Natures: The She-Devil in the Wilderness -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Where the Wild Things Are: Monsters in the Forest -- 4.1 Here Be Monsters -- 4.2 Ambiguous Monsters -- 4.3 'She Was an Old Lady with the Fur of a Horse': Witches in the Woods -- 4.4 'Forest Assassins': Wolves and the Woods -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 'It Isn't Right to Build so Close to the Woods': Humans and the Forest -- 5.1 'We're All Savages Within': Backwoods Folk -- 5.2 The Death of Nature: Constructed Wilderness -- Paradise Lost: Innocence and The Village -- Human-Made Hells: The Hunger Games and The Cabin in the Woods -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion: What Is 'That Awful Secret of the Wood'? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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