EcoGothic (International Gothic) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719086574 ISBN 13: 9780719086571

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is, with William Hughes, currently co-president of the International Gothic Association.
 
William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719086574
• ISBN 13: 9780719086571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Smith Andrew, Hughes William